Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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N.A.T.O. strategy, at last word, will be to retreat all along the western front in a sweeping are, giving up northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in that order. This retreat will leave Denmark in a precarious position, and will give the Russians access to the narrow straights of the English Channel...
...reports on his broad mahogany desk in the Pentagon, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, could see an air-power crisis closing on the U.S. at jet speed, while the U.S. was buzzing along in a B-29 frame of mind. "We are tempted to retreat from one fading hope to another," said Vandenberg two years ago, "without subjecting ourself to the discipline of facts." In 1952, the facts demanded an even more rigorous discipline. Items...
...hold their regular meetings. In his quiet, earnest baritone he went over his case again & again for Chief of Staff Joe Collins of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations Bill Fechteler and for the JCS chairman, Infantryman Omar Bradley. The Air Force still wanted 163 wings, but it would retreat to 143 wings and hope for the best. Under the discipline of facts-facts that came hard to non-airmen-the Joint Chiefs decided unanimously that the U.S. Air Force must build to a strength of 143 wings by 1954, the year that by that time had been marked...
...about, but the West cannot. Thus, Russia might permit free elections, and at a later date hand back the land east of the Oder-Neisse to sweeten the bargain. Then what would the West do? School No. i argues, in effect, that Russia may now be making a tactical retreat...
Although the withdrawal deadline had passed, New Jersey officials this week prepared to grant Taft's request and take his name off the ballot. The retreat from Jersey left no state, except possibly South Dakota, in which Taft will have to face another direct test of popularity with...