Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...night last week, as the first evening bombs began to fall on London, the Churchill Government ordered all British holdings of 164 specified issues of marketable U. S. securities sold immediately to the British Treasury. The order indicated that Britain was running short of U. S. exchange. Although only $780,000,000 in actual goods shipments moved to England in the war's first twelvemonth, $2,500,000,000 in total orders had been placed in the U. S. by the British Purchasing Commission...
...policy of Yugoslavia was last week still opposition to Italy, to whom the Adriatic lands would fall in the New Order in Europe. It was also possible that the German program might involve a march through Yugoslavia into northern Greece-the sort of march about which Yugoslavia would not be consulted. There was no way of reconciling these things with Yugoslav membership in the Axis...
Involved in the fall of Corizza were six Italian divisions, about 72,000 men. Their mechanization was their undoing in the narrow, muddy mountain passes where they stuck out Italy's neck into Greece. Like the riflemen behind trees who played hob with the British regulars in 1776, the Greek mountaineers from their hilltops demoralized an army which had been told that the Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead...
...booty was not great, but to the Greeks, accustomed to eating bean soup and black bread and carrying hand-me-down arms, it was immense. This plunder was, after the strategic factors and the enormous boost to Greek and British morale, the third most important thing about the fall of Corizza. It was said to comprise enough small arms and ammunition to outfit two Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than the entire Greek Army had when the war began. There were 80 field pieces, 55 anti-aircraft guns, numerous machine guns. There were 20 tanks, 250 trucks and other autos...
Sponsored by the Harvard Foreign Relations Club, Maurois will speak on "The Fall of France: Its Causes and Implications for Europe and America." A captain in the French Army, serving in the capacity of liaison officer, Maurois fled when his country surrendered last June...