Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last time the German juggernaut rolled, it went through Luxembourg, the tiny (999 sq. mi.) independent duchy tucked in between Belgium and France on the German border. Last week Luxembourg's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, 43, was at home, with Europe shaking around her. At the White House as weekend guests (she has no Washington embassy) arrived her husband, sporting Prince Consort Felix, and their son. Prince Jean, 19. Besides wild boars, a favorite hobby of Prince Felix is the big Luxembourg radio station (strongest west of Moscow) and which, should the juggernaut roll again, would surely be extracted...
...These were more cheerful, going to join their comrades, calculating that their job would be primarily defensive, to hold the most massive system of forts ever built, mostly underground. In two days and nights, Daladier moved between 500,000 and 600,000 troops to France's eastern border from Paris and other cities of the north, to join a million or more already there. All private munitions factories were taken over by the Government, all vacationing employes called back to work...
...early stages of another war Poland can use this border network. If the Poles are forced to retire, as expected, they will have no rail network to supply them but beyond a certain point the advancing Germans will also be without such communications close up to their lines...
Before they retreat from the main German border, the Poles may attempt an offensive into East Prussia where Hitler has soldiers who will "take" Danzig unless kept busy fighting off the Poles from their rear. The Poles are not likely in any case to' attack Danzig via the corridor for that would expose their rear to the main German attack. On a long neck of land called Hel, stretching into the sea near Danzig, the Poles have heavy guns and troops ready to be massacred by the Germans, but only after the guns of Hel have made a shambles...
...behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater danger from attack across the German border in the area between Breslau and the Moravian Gate. In this region many an observer believes that the first great battle of a German-Polish war may be fought...