Word: redoubtable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gimo looked fit and rested. He had gained eight pounds during "retirement." From his mountain hideout overlooking a black sand beach on Formosa's southern coast, he had come to give counsel and approval to plans for converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling...
...Formosa had its drawbacks as an anti-Communist redoubt governed by Chinese Nationalists. Mostly these boiled down to the simple fact that 6½ million Formosans did not like the Chinese. Last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder cabled this picture of the island in its new, unwanted role...
...original plan for Operation Coronet had been to prevent just this by slicing in between Markos and the Albanian border. The taking of Mount Ammouda, in the northern cornerstone of the Gramos redoubt, finally slid the knife in almost far enough to do the job. Reported TIME Correspondent Mary Barber...
...slack and disorganized in defeat-a soft, mushy mass of an army with only a few muscles of resistance. Cut in two by a U.S.-Russian meeting (see below), the Wehrmacht was all but cut into thirds and sixths. Bremen and Munich fell. The threat of a formidable national redoubt in the Alps was fast fading, and with it, the last German hope of delay...
...Hitler and Goebbels were in Berlin, and probably would die there; 3) that Goring, who had been officially reported relieved of his Luftwaffe command because of "acute heart disease," was out of the picture-"Nobody talks about Goring any more"; 4) that Himmler was at Salzburg, in the national redoubt; 5) that the redoubt was an indefensible shadow fortress, a myth; and 6) that the war would not last more than a few days after Berlin's fall...