Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead set against the isolationist Chicago Tribune's candidate, Werner W. Schroeder, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, but he espoused no candidate of his own. The result was that when the Committee gathered in St. Louis it permitted Somebody in the person of Mr. Schroeder to withdraw gracefully after two ballots, then proceeded by acclamation to name Nobody in the person of Harrison Earl Spangler of Iowa...
...Hitler intuition and Gestapo intrusion. But there were striking inconsistencies in the stories from Germany-the same kind of inconsistencies which have marked such reports since 1940. Example: a commonly accepted story has been that Haider & Co. fell out with Hitler over the Russian campaign and urged him to withdraw while there still was time. Yet Gustav Siegfried Eins, reporting Haider's dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe...
...over 40 can be assigned to an Army Air Forces unit, none over 45 for duty overseas. Despite every precaution, a certain number of chaplains do turn out to be misfits. Customary Army method for getting rid of them is quick, quiet and effective: get the denomination to withdraw its sanction. The minute this is done, the chaplain takes the hint and resigns...
...Russians' only definition of a second front is Allied action which will compel the Germans to withdraw great numbers of troops, weapons and planes from the Russian front...
Last week, before the Americans landed in Vichy Africa, there were private reports that the British victory in Egypt had already compelled the Germans to withdraw troops and planes from both the Stalingrad, and Caucasus fronts. Up to this week neither official announcements nor visible events in Russia had confirmed these rumors. When & if such withdrawals do occur, the Russians will know that they have their second front...