Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officially said where the B. E. F. was stationed, but everyone knew: on France's low-lying Belgian border from Lille to Hirson, right where the "Old Contemptibles" took their stand 25 years ago. They were assigned this position because, if the Western Front develops a war of movement, the movement will most likely come through the Dutch-Belgian door. The B. E. F. consists of a dozen divisions of troops mostly mechanized and motorized. There is one vehicle for each six men. A break-through by the Germans anywhere would be most effectively rushed...
...their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken virtually all German territory except a few ridges which the French retained as better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck...
...advancing Soviet Army. The Soviet patrols merely looked upon them as humble peasants. Once they hopped a ride in a Soviet Army truck, but mostly they walked. After 13 days of sleeping by day in the woods and walking by night, they reached the Carpathian Mountains, slipped through Soviet border patrols and into Rumania...
South of the border down Mexico...
...contemporary song hits most widely sung by British troops were far from martial. Besides Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho (TIME, Sept. 25) they were: 1) the Beer Barrel Polka; 2) Little Sir Echo, current U. S. hit, a favorite song of U. S. Campfire Girls; 3) South of the Border, with its nostalgic refrain...