Word: alls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When my men discover the approach of a patrol party, they withhold action until they hear the marauders encounter our barbed-wire entanglements running down the slopes on all sides."
One column reached Nurmes, cutting the railroad that runs diagonally across Finland from Tornio on the Swedish frontier to south Karelia and the isthmus. Farther north, another column took Suomussalmi and turned southward toward lisalmi, a rail junction in the centre of Finland. Still farther north, a third column bore...
France's President Albert Lebrun and Premier Edouard Daladier went out to the B. E. F. area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck p...
"Furthermore, the completion of all this work places the French High Command in a position to attempt maneuvering operations, going beyond the defensive phase on the day and at the hour it may suit it eventually to fix."
By coincidence or not, the French forecast of a war of maneuver was preceded and followed by greatly increased activity of German patrols, all the way from the Moselle to the Rhine. Starting with dozens, the Nazi raids increased to as many as 80 in a single night, in such...