Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was the stubborn fact of Yugoslavia. If reports were true, when a small British liberating force landed in Dalmatia last November, Marshal Tito disarmed them and threatened them with internment. Then London ordered them to withdraw. Now people close to Tito were talking about a Yugoslav Federation which would include Albania, parts of Greece and Bulgaria...
When Candidates Case and Godfrey stated flatly that they would not withdraw, Mr. King announced that the Grey North election would go on as scheduled. But plainly, win or lose, he was getting ready to call it a day. In Ottawa, practically everyone was betting that dissolution of Parliament was just around the corner, that Canada's next general election would probably come in the spring...
...chief of the eastern front in anticipation of the Russian blow. Guderian must have realized that at best he could hope only to delay such a tide of power as Zhukov could unloose. The Russians heard reports that Guderian had threatened to resign unless he was permitted to withdraw westward to a line he believed would stop Zhukov: from Danzig through Poznań to Breslau...
Thus was signed the truce which formally ended Greece's 42-day civil war. By its terms, ELAS would withdraw from a wide area around Athens and exchange prisoners with British and Greek Government forces. Fighting would end within three days. Meanwhile, General Scobie's forces continued mopping-up operations against ELAS units withdrawing into the hills...
Lieut. Will Rogers Jr., son of the late, great humorist, and Congressman from California until he quit politics to go to war, was forced to withdraw his platoon in the face of an enemy attack, but left his regards for the Nazis: on a four-foot sheet of wrapping paper, nailed to a tree in the middle of a road, he printed in big red letters a favorite Nazi slogan: "Beware! We will be back in two weeks with our new secret weapon...