Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep inside the Reich with Patton's rampaging divisions, Sidney Olson found "the little valley roads covered with the junk of war-the crunched helmets and the equipment thrown away in panicky retreat, the charred hulks of tanks, guns, trucks, automobiles. The little hill towns are only slightly damaged by bombing as they were never strategic targets, and it seems odd to see housewives washing their windows. . . . I am too tired now to carry this on, but I intend to keep cracking at this German atmosphere until I am satisfied that I get across some of its unreality...
...plains of northern Germany, chasing the enemy from pillar to post." Winston Churchill wanted to crack about with them. He crossed the Rhine, had a close call when a German shell burst only 50 yards away. For a life that was dear to Britain, he was persuaded to retreat...
Wherever the Germans retreat, they leave land mines behind. And wherever there are land mines (particularly the specially developed "castrator mine") some Allied soldiers are sure to suffer the most inhumane of all war wounds. Genital injuries have driven hundreds of men to suicide in World Wars...
...from their low after Singapore's fall to only a few points above their values at the time war began in 1939. To most investors this modest recovery did not seem like a runaway market. But the red flag waved by Eccles was a signal for a tactical retreat...
...promised no more action than its predecessor. Their Popular Front Government still existed, in spite of rightist gains. But all their neighbor countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia-were governed non-democratically. Unless Chile's drifting President and bickering Congress got together, the problems following peace might result in a retreat to dictatorship...