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...municipal election, Smith polled 41,000 votes to run third in an eight-candidate field. For a city generally considered a conservative stronghold, this was a remarkable showing. Torontonians also elected two communist aldermen, defeated six others. The socialist CCF failed to elect its five candidates for alderman...
Belfort, a stronghold for more than 700 years,* and a formidable assault objective, was thinly held. Histrionic Delattre de Tassigny (his officers call him Le Général de Théâtre) attempted no frontal siege. He sent his infantrymen over the snow-sogged hills to envelop the city on three sides, finally reduced several of its forts by artillery...
...French used to call Metz La Pucelle ("the Virgin"). Up to last week this historic Lorraine stronghold had never been taken by storm. Attila's Huns destroyed it in 451 A.D., but there were no Roman legions there to defend it. It was still in possession of the French when they surrendered in 1870, of the Germans in the autumn of 1918. The French claim that quislings gave it up in 1940. Last week, for the first time, Metz gave way under attack-by Americans...
Arrogant, autocratic but a resourceful, daring tactician, he restored the art of bluff and ambush to modern big-scale war. In one day he lured 300 British tanks into almost total destruction. In another day he overwhelmed the British stronghold of Tobruk. He tied up much of Britain's military strength and leaders for nearly two years and at his peak he stood at El Alamein, 65 miles from Alexandria...
...greatest land campaign ever fought by the men from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was heavy with disaster. The Jap drive was a new and terrible threat to the very heart of Free China, the stronghold area lying in a quadrilateral between Chengtu, Chungking, Kweiyang and Kunming...