Word: retreating
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...Under Secretary of the Army, and Paul Nitze, currently Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. *Dillon is the only Cabinet member who can match homes with Millionaire Jack Kennedy. Besides his Washington residence, he has an apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a winter retreat at Kobe Sound, Fla., called La Lanterne, a summer place in Darkharbor, Me., an estate in Far Hills, N.J., a "cottage" at Versailles, France...
...Gort's army was in full retreat from Hitler's Panzers toward the Channel ports when Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill's Secretary of State for War, gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy...
Faced with a conventional attack, says Taylor, the U.S. now has no alternative but to risk national suicide by starting an all-out war "or retreat in the face of the superiority of Soviet conventional forces. We have accepted as a deliberate decision continued inferiority on the ground in those areas where we may be challenged on the Communist periphery...
...tight pleasures and pains of Hemingway's world; nothing else could convey with such on-going, irresistible immediacy the pure analyzed sense of "what is." Only thus could we ever have experienced the bus ride to Burguete and the fishing in The Sun Also Rises, the mud-epic retreat in A Farewell to Arms, Pilar's tale of "the day it began" in the finest of his full-length novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Many a U.S. citizen has mixed feelings about General of the Army Douglas Mac-Arthur. But to Filipinos, MacArthur is a hero without flaw. "I shall return," he promised in retreat before the Japanese in the first dark days of 1942; and he kept his promise when U.S. troops stormed back into the Philippines in 1944. He returned again in 1946 to watch as the U.S., after nearly 50 years of beneficent colonial tutelage, bestowed independence on the Philippines. Last week, to help Filipinos celebrate their 15th anniversary of freedom, the old soldier, a frail but erect 81, returned...