Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rebel" Smith tells his story of "Sherman's Retreat" through Georgia. "Why, it was another Dunquerque," says the man from the Deep South. When accused of being related to a carpet bagger, Smith was seen gathering his Confederate flag and picture of Robert E. Lee, and heading home...
...week's end the Communist ex-ministers beat a tactical retreat, told their followers: "Personal arms must be surrendered. . . . The Resistance must do everything in its power to maintain order . . . avoid any conflict with Allied armies." But 15,000 Belgians with Hammer-&-Sickle flags marched through Brussels streets and continued to shout: "A bas Pierlot!" (Down with Pierlot...
Last week they were still trying to break the Germans, bump them into a disastrous run. But the Nazis, busy at one of their most carefully nurtured arts-retreat-held fast. On successive days, U.S. and Polish troops lost bridgeheads across watercourses to withering German fire, had to fight again to get them back. They pushed doggedly ahead. This week the Allies stood on the left bank of the Maas and its estuary, the Hollandsch Diep, on a 50-mile front. Nearly all of the German Fifteenth Army had already crossed intact by way of the big rail and road...
...Germans hang on? Explained General Alexander: 1) for prestige -Italy, a former Ally, is the major territory outside Germany that is still held; 2) for morale-further retreat would affect the home front; 3) for supply-the industries of north Italy are still useful...
China's Soldier. In March 1942, General Stilwell went back to China, plunged immediately into the hopeless task of holding Burma against the Japs. His famed retreat across Burma ("I say we took a hell of a beating") did not shake his faith in the Chinese soldier. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek supported Stilwell, at first. So did his great & good friend, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall...