Word: reconquest
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...Reconquest When? The renewed Battle of Burma was still only small-scale attrition; probably not more than 4,000 Japs were engaged. Neither side was heady with success and both were beginning to feel the supply pinch...
...four, Joseph Stalin had scored highest. Over the dead bodies of thousands of Germans he had guided the Soviet armies to the reconquest of some 325 thousands of square miles of Russian ruins since the winter offensive began in November 1942. His shadow spread longer over Eastern and Southern Europe. But no longer was Stalin the lone winner he had been in 1942. He now sought and acknowledged partnership with the other great powers. Gone with Russia's isolation was her exceptional rank...
...would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well, the Allies would fall to fighting among themselves, their power would disintegrate, and Hitler would return for the triumphant reconquest of Europe...
Last week Bengal officials, seeking help in New Delhi, offered a plan for the systematic housing and feeding of the destitute, and a proposal for repatriating refugees to the villages. Others eyed the Japanese looting of Burmese rice stocks and hoped for a more permanent solution: the reconquest of Burma...
...Adriatic. On the other shore is Yugoslavia, where guerrillas await the Allies. At some time and point, Allied forces moving in from the western and eastern Mediterranean will probably join. In the meantime, firm basing in southern Italy practically completes the neutralization of the Italian Navy, the reconquest of the Mediterranean and the opening of shorter supply routes for the Allied armies on its shores and in Russia...