Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Retreat. Good news from the north was partially offset by bad tidings from the south. There, on the road to Rumania, the Red Command admitted withdrawals-its first in ten weeks. (Berlin promptly blossomed out with a report of ten Soviet infantry divisions and several tanks corps "wiped...
...that afternoon, the ammunition had run out. German counterattacks were in force, and the U.S. position was untenable. Retreat was ordered. Some swam across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...
Since the Wehrmacht has been making a career of retreat, mines have been met in such quantities that the work of detecting, disarming and removing them can no longer be handled solely by skilled Engineer detachments. The infantry and all other combat branches must be trained to do their own mine-finding...
Follow the Leader. Once more, as in the coal crisis, the Administration had honored the letter of Little Steel, while doing violence to its spirit. Once more the Government had covered its retreat by seizing property and thus giving the appearance of decision. But the workers lost nothing by Government operation, and won their wage demands. Three thousand coal mines seized in November were still being operated by the U.S. Under the Smith-Connally Act, they were to be turned back to their owners within 60 days after "productive efficiency" had been reestablished. The mines were back to normal output...
...Russian press took pains to couple the item with an otherwise innocuous Ankara dispatch to the London Sunday Times (no relation to the Times of London). This report said that Ambassador Franz von Papen asked the Turks, two months ago, to relay a German proposal that the Wehrmacht voluntarily retreat to prewar boundaries in the west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were clearly meant to understand that peace talk was going...