Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Eden last week told the House of Commons what he could about his talks in Moscow with Cordell Hull and Viacheslav Molotov and his subsequent conference with Turkey's Numan Menemencioglu. He made two salient points: 1) knotty issues still remain to be settled; 2) because the U.S.S.R., Great Britain and the U.S. have assumed the final responsibility for reshaping Europe, they must have unfettered freedom to make the final decisions.*Said...
Armistice. In September 1918, Colonel George C. Marshall, Chief of Operations for the First Army, finished the planning. On the 12th the First Army attacked along the salient at St. Mihiel. By the end of October the whole Meuse-Argonne front was aflame. In the gumbo mud of France 117,000 men of the First Army were dead or wounded. The German army was in retreat. On Oct. 30 Pershing wrote: "We should . . . continue the offensive until we compel [Germany's] unconditional surrender...
...western Pacific. The trouble with this assumption is that Japan's other great artery, reaching south to the Marianas and Carolines, would remain untouched. The Empire artery would be uncut until the very moment of reaching Formosa. In other words, the Allied advance would be up a precarious salient flanked by Japan's two greatest naval and military lines. The risk would be tremendous...
...Germans had been saving "Plan A" for Allied invasion. Salient features: arrest of all officers of the French armistice army, internment of all army reserve officers, disarmament of the Garde Mobile, the arrest of all Jews and suspected foreigners...
...Reid, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says: '. . . In 1897 he was special ambassador of the United States on the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee; in 1902 he was special ambassador . . . at the coronation of King Edward VII; and in 1905 he became ambassador to Great Britain. . . . ' These salient details . . . may throw light on the question why today the New York Herald Tribune worships everything connected with Britain...