Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans could not transfer units from France without paving the way for Montgomery, making defeat in the west more certain. The 20-odd divisions committed to rear-guard action in Italy might have made the difference if they had been shifted to Russia, but it was too late for that now. And the Nazis could not borrow from other sectors of the Russian front itself without openly inviting the Reds to walk through...
...Algiers, he found his ace economic brain-truster, urbane Herve Alphand, back from London after a successful conference with British officials. The British had reportedly agreed to: 1) transfer civil administration of liberated a.eas behind the battlefront to Gaullist commissioners; 2) recognize the Gaullist Committee's right to issue all currency in liberated France; 3) supply food to the liberated population...
Drafted, willingly, into politics by his good friend Winston Churchill shortly after Munich, he made such a name for himself as a top administrator (he planned Britain's remarkably smooth transfer to severe rationing) that he was soon in the key Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a short while he was widely talked about as a Tory candidate for Prime Minister. But an early ministerial speech was so maladroit that the boomlet promptly collapsed. Said a friend: "He talks like Demosthenes with the pebbles in his mouth...
...London, British and Gaullist representatives worked toward an agreement to transfer civil affairs in liberated French areas to Gaullist control, as soon as the military situation allows. In the background was the understanding that the U.S. would approve that kind of an agreement, so long as Washington does not have to come right out and say that it has recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation as the Provisional Government of France...
...What the press in America needs is a constitutional revolution . . . a transfer of power from publishers as kings to publishers and editors as prime ministers...