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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time the side door to France, while not so strong as her eastern portals, is doubly locked and bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Side Door | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

> As the War's third week ended, the French reported severe German counterattacks on the Blies Valley salient to relieve French pressure on Zweibrücken. A mass of fast light German tanks was said to have been smashed up at the French wire by anti-tank fire, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Side Door | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

No Buffer. There had been reports in highest Berlin and Moscow circles that a strip of Poland would be left as a "buffer state" between Russia and Germany. This was even mooted in an official Moscow broadcast. Brushing it aside, the High Commands decided that no sufficient Polish authority remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

In Moscow the Red Army newsorgan Red Star published the text of leaflets given to Russian soldiers before they were started out for Poland, assuring them that the Generals and officers of the Polish Army had fled and containing appeals from the Polish populace for "liberation." In London, the Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

"Reconstruction and Germanization." The announced slogan of Nazi Labor Service battalions and Storm Troops in Germany's slice of Poland last week were "Reconstruction and Germanization!" Nearly all important bridges had been destroyed, either by German bombers or retreating Polish troops, and the first big job of the Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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