Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That politicians need periods of retreat for contemplation and reflection upon the ultimate reasons for existence...
...That the best retreat, now that the Continent is cut off from Britain, is the Abbey of the Cistercian monks in Leicester...
...Chekiang, birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Jap said he was preparing for other work. Probably he was. But as he thinned out his garrisons, the foundations of his conquest were magically washed away, and Chiang's soldiers found it suddenly easy to speed him on his retreat...
...willingly was the Jap retiring. He had worked too hard consolidating his hold on the provinces last May and June to throw the advantages they gave him out the window. He retired too slowly, took too many casualties, to give his retreat the color of orderly withdrawal. He even launched fierce counterattacks, retook one town (Lanchi) after the Chinese had driven him from...
...answer to questions from the floor, Brinton disagreed with Hocking's statement that negotiations on Indian independence must be reopened. Any retreat on Britain's part would be dangerous, he said