Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle for Leyte was not yet over, but it was decided. The Japs realized its significance. This battle, said Radio Tokyo, would not only decide "whether we lose one corner of the Philippines," but would decide "whether we lose our sea routes to our southern regions. . . . We cannot withdraw even a single step, for we have burned our bridges behind us." The defeat which now confronted them would cost the enemy half an empire...
...other hand, we must not, in the search for perfection, withdraw our support of the best which may now be practical. "The Dumbarton Oaks proposals assure . . . that when the war coalition dissolves it will be replaced by a peace coalition, rather than by pre-war anarchy. . . . Therefore, they can be accepted. But they can be accepted only as a beginning. Next to doing nothing, the worst calamity would be to regard what is now done as adequate. . . . We must recognize the fact that we face a continuing task...
...Vosges mountains by French and Americans under U.S. Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, an estimated force of 40,000 Germans was in serious danger of complete envelopment. Their backs were to the Rhine. There the Germans adeptly clung to the few bridges over which they hoped to withdraw men and machines...
...some weeks before his death. Hartley began to withdraw from his friends on the Maine coast. They soon discovered that he fell asleep while sitting in a chair. They brought the village doctor, who persuaded him to go to the hospital. There he died, alone...
...Judd, who had been in China, gave his version of what had happened: one day General Stilwell received orders to deliver an ultimatum from the White House to Chiang Kaishek. The ultimatum demanded that General Stilwell be made commander of all China's armies or the U.S. would withdraw its military support from China. No self-respecting head of state could countenance such an ultimatum. The Generalissimo's patience snapped. Angrily he retorted: Then the U.S. will have to withdraw its support. Said Congressman Judd: It was a diplomatic mistake by the U.S. "Stilwell did not make...