Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The War Office's wish to keep the visit secret had been firmly overridden by George VI, who said: "My people have a right to know where I am, and I don't wish the first news ... to be reported by Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen."
> After George VI was safe home in England, fact was released that he had: spent six nights abroad; gone within range of German guns; been told that, for this war's first time, British ground troops had (under French direction) engaged the enemy.
"Our work of fortification, carried out from the start [of war] at an accelerated pace, is now virtually complete. The essential purpose of this work was, in a sense, to double the Maginot Line. Thus, in the north of France and in the Jura [Swiss border] there has been constructed...
Only to laymen do the French military use the phrase "Maginot Line." In official parlance, their system of forts and ramparts is called "The Permanent Fortified Positions." In physical terms, the commentary meant that these positions have now been lengthened at both ends, and also increased in depth, on the...
"When you are with these highly professional soldiers, men who have been fighting this kind of guerrilla warfare most of their lives, you cannot help feeling unbounded confidence.