Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allies and friends, Franklin Roosevelt's re-election was a vote for U.S. participation in the ordering of the world, an endorsement of the working partnership of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek, both in war & peace - and a promise that this time the U.S. would not withdraw. Political leaders abroad no longer hid their relief...
Said the Quai d'Orsay: France has diplomatic obligations to Spain. The French Government had ordered all Spanish Maquis in the F.F.I, to withdraw ten miles from the Spanish border. Spanish consulates in France, occupied by Spanish Maquis, would be returned to Franco's consuls. There were reports that France and Spain would resume diplomatic relations...
...northeast Greece the beaten Bulgarians began to withdraw from Thrace in answer to Allied demands. Off western Greece the British walked onto the island of Corfu, its once-green hills and flowered meadows torn by incessant bombing. Not a shot was fired...
...London last week the European Advisory Commission* worked out the final draft of an armistice for Bulgaria. Under its reported terms the Bulgars must withdraw immediately from Greek and Yugoslav territory in Macedonia and Thrace; pay reparations (amount not yet fixed) to Greece and Yugoslavia; continue fighting their erstwhile ally, Germany; permit the Allies to use Bulgaria for attacking Germany...
...line, but rivers through broad plains do not compare in strength with mountains, especially if the attacker has overwhelming air power. For Field Marshal Albert Kesselring the end of his long, skillful campaign in Italy was now in sight. The only possible salvage still open to him was to withdraw his small army successfully to the fierce crags of the Dolomites, which form a better defense line than any he has held heretofore. There, on the frontier, he should be able to keep General Sir Harold Alexander from penetrating into Austria. But then Milan, Turin, Genoa, the whole Po Valley...