Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the overall control of Field Marshal Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group, in order that "Monty" might coordinate the northern offensives. The Canadian thrust which reached Cleve threatened to roll up Rundstedt's right flank by a drive down the west bank of the Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally crack the German armies...
...Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans had chosen to make an armored stand...
Belgian women had scarcely ceased weeping over the coffins of the victims of Rundstedt's Christmas drive. Belgian political factions had scarcely interrupted (but never really stopped) their quarrel in face of the threat that the drive implied. Last week in Brussels crisis loomed again. The five Socialist members of his Cabinet threatened to withdraw their support from Premier Hubert Pierlot. His Government seemed to be tottering...
...possibilities of the Konev and Zhukov drives were tremendous. Konev presumably had the power to expand his Silesian grip toward richer industrial prizes in Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch...
...other side of India, northeast of Calcutta and south of the realm of the Bong of Wong, the Maharaja of Manipur celebrated his coronation-three years late. Because of the Japanese threat to India, he had postponed the ceremony. Taking to wife a third "wartime" bride on the advice of his high priest (three wives can better rule a ruler's heart than two in time of crisis), he had decided to wait patiently for the Japanese to go. Now, with the Japanese gone, he was back in his capital again. Up to his bomb-wrecked coronation hall...