Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Allies in full retreat across Flanders, German armored columns had circled around to Abbeville, were approaching Boulogne, Calais, cutting the northern Allied Armies off from all support. On May 19, Maxime Weygand had supplanted Maurice Gustave Gamelin as Allied Generalissimo. It was too late...
...French withdrawal from the Seine not an unrelieved debacle. There, from Cherbourg, Brest and St. Nazaire, fresh units of a new British Expeditionary Force, a "broomstick Army," began pouring in, true to British promise. Some were veterans of the ill-starred expedition to Norway. Some were survivors of the retreat to Dunkirk. As fast as their meagre equipment got ashore, these latecomers sped across Normandy and Poitou to meet the German tide. Those who had seen him before, even more than those who had not, longed for a crack at "Jerry." But by the time that...
Bespectacled Spinster Margaret Wilson, talented daughter of the late President Woodrow Wilson, donned the voluminous white robes of a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, sought refuge from the world in the Brahmin retreat at Pondichery, India...
...George VI, target for the first time last fortnight of direct Nazi press attacks, congratulated his troops and their French allies upon their valiant retreat from Dunkirk, visited an arms factory to observe munition-making gains, fired a target full of creditable holes with a Bren...
...dwindling cash and paper stocks forced the Daily Worker to curtail. Hard-hitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill took no chance of alienating Comrade Stalin by cracking down on the Daily Worker. By way of tactful acknowledgment, Moscow papers printed 2,000 words from Churchill's speech on the retreat of the B. E. F. from Flanders...