Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Americans have taken refuge in a grim and too easy sophism: "The Russians and Poles and Czechs will handle the Germans; the Chinese will take care of the Japs before we can do anything anyway." But can the U.S., fighting a united war for a united peace, retreat into moral isolation? The Nazis think not. Last week they were blaming the Kharkov hangings on Roosevelt and Churchill, and threatening to take retaliation on U.S. and British prisoners...
...city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...
Hitler presided. He flatly refused to allow Paulus to retreat. The Sixth Army, he shouted, should form a gigantic "hedgehog," capable of beating back all attacks until succored by an army pushing from the Caucasus. Air transport would supply the hedgehog with food and ammunition...
...last year the Alaska Highway brought briskness to Editor Moore's idyllic retreat. Thousands of inflooding U.S. Army engineers and private construction workers transformed Whitehorse into something unreal. Circulation of the Star did not zoom: there are still only some 600 Stargazers. But the job printing orders went up like a rocket. Officers and contractors now bang on the Star's door with orders for letterheads, record forms, tickets, contracts, etc., in thousands...
...raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey's Into the Valley ($2); Jack Belden's Retreat With Stilwell ($3); Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War ($3); Hilary St. George Saunders' Combined Operations; the Official Story of the Commandos...