Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been no blacker week since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...
...India. Toungoo was one of the two points in central Burma where Allied troops had taken a stand against the Japs advancing from the conquered south. The other was Prome, where General H. R. L. G. Alexander had, to some extent, refitted his battered British Imperials after their retreat from Rangoon. Last week they had to retreat again. They abandoned Prome, but they were still between the Japs and the valuable oilfields of Burma's Irrawaddy Valley...
...might still be too few, but no longer would General Sir Archibald Wavell have to say of them that they were ill-trained for Burman war (see p. 18). Last week the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald's correspondent, W. S. Mundy, cabled to N.A.N.A. an account of the retreat of 1,000 British troops from Rangoon...
...French Volunteers Against Bolshevism," endorsed by Vichy, offered recruits a tidy 40 francs a day (against the ten francs paid by France's "Armistice Army"). In German uniforms and tricolor brassards, they swore fealty to the Reichsführer and were exhorted to avenge Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Men with families in concentration camps learned that joining the legion would free them...
...less time, apparently, to back out of the Orient. The Russians alone are advancing, and they can hardly be expected to continue without support. Unless we have the courage and the initiative to give up passive defense for active offense we shall very shortly find ourselves executing a strategic retreat from Cambridge, and retiring to defend Belmont Hill...