Word: ren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London: adroit René Massigli, a cold, analytical career diplomat who was slow to get off the Vichy wagon but has nevertheless won De Gaulle's confidence. ¶ In Washington: lean, able Henri Bonnet, who put in eleven years with the League of Nations and joined forces with De Gaulle in 1940. He and Mme. Bonnet came to the U.S. that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world...
Meanwhile, the British Second Army and the U.S. Ninth Army stood on a 45-mile stretch of the Roer's west bank, from Roermond south beyond Düren. They could not risk a crossing so long as the Germans threatened to loose a flood on them from above. Before giving up the biggest dam, to the advancing First, the Germans last week demolished the floodgates. That dumped a huge volume of water into the valley, and the Allied armies on the west bank got out of its way. When the flood subsided, that danger would be gone...
These moves gave General Eisenhower a 40-mile stretch of the Roer from the Maas down past Düren. It was still the best platform for a leap to the Rhine-as soon as the Allies could make...
General Hodges of the First Army struck the match. He attacked at Monschau, 20 miles southwest of Düren, where he was already across the Roer headwaters in the hills. Since this area is walled off from the Düren sector by the Hürtgen Forest and other difficult terrain, it did not seem that Hodges was attempting to roll up the German line, but to draw German strength from the north, thus reduce the enemy pressure at Düren and Jülich...
...Your Great Hour." But Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was thinking too. His converse idea: to take off the Allies' pressure in the Düren-Jülich sector by a full-out attack even farther south. Just past his 69th birthday but by no means a tired old man, Rundstedt was reported to be at Coblenz, where he had assembled his best tactical brains in one headquarters. To his troops he proclaimed...