Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presently he submitted a memorandum warning that a pro-Nazi Fifth Column threatened Yugoslavian unity and full mobilization in case of attack. War Minister Milan Neditch, now Hitler's Serbian Quisling, asked Mihailovich to withdraw his memorandum. He refused, and was sentenced to 30 days of military arrest for "disloyalty." He was freed at the instigation of Inspector General Bogoljub Illich, who is now in London with the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile...
Masefield's conclusion is that Hitler is caught in a dilemma: the eastern offensive cannot be long delayed, but first the Führer must withdraw aircraft from France or Italy, thus giving the R.A.F. even greater supremacy and perhaps making a continental invasion possible...
...noble Lords stared motionless at the floor, while Lord Portsea waited, one hand raised. Finally he whispered: "There is no reply. On your heads be it. I beg leave to withdraw." He sat down. His old friend Viscount Bledisloe, 74, walked over and pressed his hand...
...World War II approached he worked mightily for more & more French appeasement for Germany. After the fall of France, he was the man who bullied President Lebrun into his defeatist decision not to withdraw to Africa, where a Free French Government might have seriously handicapped German designs. Laval got the Vichy Vice Premiership, was the leading exponent of collaboration with Hitler...
Quisling was finally forced to repudiate his threat to arrest all pastors who did not withdraw their resignations by 2 p.m. Saturday, and early reports indicated that the resigned pastors had been able to conduct their Sunday services as "free clergymen" without Quisling or Nazi interference...