Word: withdrawnness
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Diplomatic gossips seized on these changes to revive a prediction, first heard last Christmas, that Maxim Litvinoff would soon be withdrawn from Washington. Litvinoff has been in Moscow since May. Mme. Litvinoff is still...
...including the re-won Mediterranean link to the Middle East and to Russia, must still be protected by a big fraction of Allied air and naval strength. The Germans, in one of their several alibis to their own people last week, said that the U-boats were being partly withdrawn to await new devices and new tactics, that eventually they would strike again. Well aware that the Allies had won their recent gains at sea with new devices and tactics, Allied Navy men did not laugh off this threat...
...Rumanians are also worried by their neighbors and territorial rivals, Hungary and Bulgaria. According to one report, Dictator Antonescu's nephew, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu, recently threatened to resign with the entire Cabinet unless enough Rumanian troops were withdrawn from Russia to defend the Bulgarian frontier. Rumania has already lost part of Transylvania to Hungary...
...large naval units for, and fast enough (twelve knots) to cross the Sicilian Channel under cover of dark ness. Aircraft caught some by day, for the Germans were unquestionably trying to get away as much valuable personnel as possible. Late in the week the Axis was estimated to have withdrawn between 4,000 and 5,000 men. In two days Allied planes sank 45 vessels, including many of these ferry barges...
...Army will not be completely equipped until late in 1944-despite the "truly remarkable job American business and industry have done in 17 months." Essential cargo for the available shipping is still difficult to supply. On many occasions equipment has been withdrawn from troops in training to supply troops overseas. Rumors that the army is so flooded with equipment that plants have had to shut down are fifth-column rumors designed to slow production. Some cutbacks in schedules have occurred. But only in one field, ammunition, is there a reserve...