Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balkan term for Yugoslavia's long-deferred, long-discussed accord between the Serbian majority and the Croat minority is sporazum. Last week sporazum dramatically demonstrated how much Europe's tension had accelerated the growth of Balkan nationalism despite external pressure, internal dissension. In post-War Yugoslav history the...
This hardly seemed the proper tone for future partners. Nor were the times ripe for calm negotiation. But as the sensations of Germany's conflict with Danzig dwindled before the bigger sensation of a German-Russian anti-aggression pact, Yugoslavia's quarreling factions reluctantly, slowly, drew together: sporazum...
Not every great general has succeeded in expressing this axiom of military science so sententiously. But every real master of strategy, from Carthage's Hannibal and Rome's Caesar to France's Gamelin, has understood the intimate relationship between troops and terrain, countryside and conquest, strategy and...
Bismarck once said: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." What he meant to say was that so long as Germany controlled the Bohemian bastion it would be relatively easy to keep invaders from the east from carrying warfare into the South German Basin or out on to...
Back to Napoleon? To force Germany to fight on two fronts, to cut her off from the oil and grain fields of East Europe is vital to England and France. To do so they must help their allies in the East. Once war begins, they will be practically cut off...