Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany and Russia must be predicated on a meeting of minds between Hitler and Stalin. Hitler must estimate how much Stalin will concede and refrain from asking for much more. Stalin must estimate how much he can afford to concede and take a position from which he can comfortably withdraw. If either Hitler or Stalin miscalculates, the result may be war, though neither wants...
...After twelve days of what has undoubtedly been the fiercest fighting in this war, it was decided to withdraw our forces from Crete. . . . Some 15,000 [of our] troops have been withdrawn to Egypt but it must be admitted that our losses have been severe." With this bleak announcement the British War Office signalized the end of not only the fiercest but also some of the most crucial fighting in World War II-the airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean...
...British were not overly sanguine. They thought El-Gailani's troops might withdraw to the north of Iraq, to the area which makes hot and barren Iraq so worthy of a scrap: the oil fields around Mosul. Last week London reported that strong forces of German airborne troops, complemented with bombers and fighters, had made their way across Syria and were well established in the oil-bearing area...
...spread into the Middle East and tankers continued to sink in the Atlantic, the Maritime Commission planned to withdraw 50 tankers of the 345 in the U.S.'s intercoastal trade, put them into shuttle service for Britain. This week the first batch of 25 tankers are being shifted...
...which was made in Hollywood last year with one eye on Latin-American trade. The Argentine audience sneered, whistled, booed. On the second night there was so much racket that a police riot squad stopped the show in the middle. Next day the municipal authorities got the theater to withdraw the picture...