Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot escape the consequences of its outcome. There are some who may hold the opinion that we can isolate ourselves from world events, crawl into our economic and political cyclone cellar, draw in the trap door after us, and thus preserve the essential elements of the American experiment. ... To retreat to the cyclone cellar here means, ultimately, to establish a totalitarian state at home...
...French Alpine troops at Namsos embarked first, under General Sylvestre Gérard Audet, who was wounded in the head by bomb splinters. Then went the British, throwing their arms and stores away, their retreat "covered" by Norwegians, whose Colonel Ole Getz complained bitterly, and surrendered to the Germans, when he found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped...
...Commons (see p. 32) contained no restorative stronger than patience to parry the shock. At very least, the Allies had grossly, amateurishly muffed a priceless chance to gain by Adolf Hitler's expansion of the war. And even more gravely psychological than military were the implications of the retreat from Åndalsnes and Namsos. It was possible that the lessons the Allies learned in Norway, about modern war in general and German tactics in particular, would some day prove worth the lives and materiel lost, the humiliation suffered. But for the moment, the balance on Norway showed deep...
Connecting the American Civilization Plan, even informally, with course work is admittedly a retreat from President Conant's original ideal. But only in this fashion can the neglected Plan, dying now, be saved. A doctor, not an undertaker, is called...
...saying to him: "For God's sake, tell them we have got to have airplanes and anti-aircraft guns. . . . It's a bloody mess. They've let us down in London." He quoted a Norse captain as saying, after Norwegians covered the shattered Britons' retreat: "It looks as if the British were going to fight to the last Norwegian...