Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler's retreat to elastic defenses may have been too late for anything less than the complete failure of his Russian campaign. If so, his only hope is to withdraw to the Reich and convert it (and Western Europe) into an impregnable fortress (TIME, Feb. 8). But that remained to be proved. What had been proved was that the Red Army was giving his Wehrmacht no rest or resting place...
...British still fear that the U.S., although committed to the "unconditional surrender" of Germany, Italy and Japan, may withdraw again into isolation when victory is won. The British still watch U.S. policy operating in North Africa with rising alarm. The British still wonder whether military expediency means that when the U.S. has its say about the swirling postwar hatreds of Europe it may result in blithe recognition of any collaborationist who suddenly swathes himself in professed patriotism. Britain, which has to live across the Channel from Europe, wants no postwar makeshifts that will loose another world war as soon...
...valley, once penetrated, had to be abandoned. The Japs had the Marines at the mercy of well-placed mortars and the Marines could not bring their machine guns to bear. Before the order came to withdraw, the Marines were near panic: "This was a distressing sight, and though I myself was more than eager to be away from that spot, I had a helpless desire to do something to stop the flight. ... I couldn't do anything about it because I was caught up in the general feeling...
...view of the absolute necessity of at least continuing, and if possible increasing the production of war materials ... it is apparent that it will be too dangerous to withdraw from war production many more men for service in the armed forces. . . . We should shrink from the adoption of any program which endangers in the slightest way the production of all of the things that our armed forces and our allies need...
Edward J. Flynn announced last night that he was asking President Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination for Minister to Australia...