Word: two-front
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...cutting back war production some 15%, the first phase in shifting the U.S. from a two-front to a one-front war economy, has already started. WPBoss Julius Krug told a Senate committee: the cutbacks will take place within the next three or four months...
...Filthy. From the European theater another two-front observer gave his opinion. Major General J. Lawton ("Joe Lightning") Collins fought in Guadalcanal and New Georgia, now commands the VII Corps on the Western Front. In a recent interview in Yank...
...mean more severity on Germany than we may have imagined. The Allies must do two things. First, the German militarist class with its agricultural domains must be completely depressed and big German industry completely depressed and big German industry completely controlled, so that proportionate encouragement will be given to the liberal and socialist elements within Germany itself that must bring about democracy. Second, we must firmly cement our British-Russian-American alliance so that the Germans will be faced with the permanent threat of two-front...
...Reich's dread of a two-front war had become a staggering reality of three, with more to follow if the Allies decided that more amphibious attacks on the Continent were necessary. The Allies' breakthrough of the Atlantic Wall had been followed by an even greater disaster in the east...
...countryside's peasantry. They controlled villages ungarrisoned by the enemy. They sabotaged rail and road communications vital to German transport. Against them the Nazis rallied the bedraggled remnant of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, decreed the death penalty. In Italy, too, the Germans were fighting a two-front...