Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost. Unlike war in 1917, war in 1941 must be "total." Once American battleships fire or are fired upon in Europe waters, we shall be committed to a policy that will end years latter either with American doughboys marching down. Unter den Linden, or with a shameful and disastrous retreat to our own hemisphere. In any case this war will mean universal conscription, loss of civil liberties, regimentation, and hard times. It will means a loss of the principles and the very "way of life" for which we would professedly be fighting...
...estimated half of Mussolini's East African army--about 100,000 troops --were said to face entrapment in Eritrea, while other Italian forces were reported in retreat from Western Ethiopia and from Ethiopia's southern frontier...
...fallen in three days. By last week this tentative operation and the Eritrean push (see col. 3) had grown into a campaign of conquest covering a quarter of a continent. To the always confident British this was not surprising. But the only reasonable explanation for the Italians' hasty retreat on all fronts was either that the Italians had lost their military minds or that Benito Mussolini had taken a leaf from the book of an ancient compatriot, Quintus Fabius Maximus...
CAIRO--Fascist forces tonight were reported in "full retreat" from Britain's four-pronged invasion, of Italian East Africa after British forces captured the Eritrean railroad terminus of Agordat and "many hundreds of prisoners" in fierce battle...
...forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth" there was an equal emphasis that "In this day the task of the people is to save the nation from disruption from without." And it seemed somehow that the President spoke of both purposes when he proclaimed, "We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will...