Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians were well entrenched in the rugged 6,000-foot Cheren plateau, difficult country for mechanized troops. Best British bet seemed to be fresh troops driving down the Red Sea coast from the north, which threatened to cut off the defenders on the plateau or force their retreat. When Cheren fell the Italians would be in a fair way to losing Eritrea, their oldest colony...
...just retreat...
Yugoslavia, confronted with the accomplished fact of Bulgaria's falling into the Nazi camp, found herself outflanked, and prepared to fall .in too. By invitation Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetko-vitch and Foreign Minister Dr. Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch went to Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat for a three-hour conversation. If Herr Hitler ranted, he wasted his breath. Premier Cvetkovitch speaks no German; Hitler's Interpreter Dr. Paul Schmidt does not echo the Führer's screams. And Foreign Minister Cincar-Markovitch, who speaks fluent German, is known to be the most patient...
Strategic Retreat. The crisis in Franco-German relations had come at last. It had been brewing since December, when the Marshal dismissed Pierre Laval-a politician of the sort that Adolf Hitler can deal with. The Marshal's trusted aide, Admiral Jean Darlan, was in Paris conferring with Laval and with Hitler's Ambassador, Otto Abetz. Admiral Darlan was empowered to offer Laval reinstatement in the Government on an equal footing with himself and War Minister General Charles Huntziger, the Marshal retaining supreme authority. That was the Marshal's strategic withdrawal to positions he had previously prepared...
...proximity might prove to be a beneficial persuasion on General Maxime Weygand. The Vichy censors decided it was about time to let French newspapers pay a little attention to the Italian situation in Africa. The paper Montague of Clermont-Ferrand went so far as to say: "The word 'retreat' should now be used...