Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bastille Day passed in France this week without a single parade by Frenchmen. Plans for a parade in Paris were canceled by the Germans, who five days earlier had staged an impressive parade of their own, down the Champs-Elysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde through a double line of stone-silent onlookers. Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had ordered those of his countrymen whom he governs to observe France's onetime No. 1 holiday as a day "without labor" devoted to thinking of "our dead...
Nature's Pincers. Between the Arctic and the Black Sea lie 3,000 miles of Russian border (see map, p. 24)-as long as the U.S.-Canadian border. The long miles bulge in a great convex arc-incipient giant pincers against Russia. It was to push these pincers as far as possible from Moscow and the industrial area of European Russia that the U.S.S.R. had grabbed buffer areas every time Germany had pushed over a nation on the Soviet border...
...German opening attack struck at every sector of the arc. Only as the attack developed could the main drives be singled out with assurance...
...College of the City of New York (TIME, April 8, 1940) have finally boiled over. This week they cut loose in an angry book, The Bertrand Russell Case (Viking; $2.50). Their flattering finding: the Russell case ranks with the persecutions of Socrates, John Huss and Joan of Arc, as one of history's most infamous episodes...
Alexandria was busy last week, but not frightened. In the hotels along the placid, sweeping arc of waterfront, civil servants gathered to talk, listen to radio reports, and read the Reuters ticker. In canteens back in the town, soldiers and sailors waited for orders and talked about this chance to crack the Jerries. The fleet was massed in west harbor behind Ras el Tin Point, and in the harbor there was a bustle of ships oiling, coaling, painting, refitting, storing, watering, signaling back & forth. Troops poured into town from East Africa, furious that their winter work was canceled...