Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still on the record was President Ryti's recent pledge to fulfill his Party's promise to withdraw from the war when "the propitious moment arrives." That moment evidently had not arrived...
...There is one thing I particularly stress, and it is the danger of speculating on future moves. . . . For example, when I was in Burma last year, I laid most careful plans for misleading the Japanese into thinking we would withdraw north towards Myitkyina, whereas it was my intention to slip away and across the Chindwin River at Kalewa, thereby extricating my force from an almost impossible position. . . . To my consternation, the night before we moved, it was given out on the air that 'the British forces are withdrawing to their base at Kalewa.' The result was that...
...Inefficient transportation, idle factories, high taxes, famine. Material conditions and morale of the people went down each year. "The Government propaganda authorities had to withdraw the posters showing Franco in a heroic pose, with arms crossed over his chest. ... To stand with arms folded is the symbol of unemployment in Spain, and too many disillusioned Spaniards had scrawled over the poster...
When a child is accepted by the school, his parents legally bind themselves not to withdraw him before his 16th birthday. Books and games are provided free, but pupils must buy their own school uniforms. Boys wear grey suits and navy blue caps ringed with the green & red school colors. Girls wear white, square-necked blouses, navy-blue pleated skirts, felt hats. In warm weather they change to green cotton frocks and striped blazers...
...Russian armies rolled up. It handicapped U.S.-British strategists in their plans for a continental invasion. It created worries which stemmed as much from the sins and lacks of Anglo-American relations with Russia as from the mysteries of Russian policy. The chief worries were that: 1) Stalin might withdraw from the war when the invaders were driven from Russian territory, thus leaving Hitler free to face the U.S. and Britain; 2) Stalin might let the momentum of his armies spread over the entire Continent...