Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's Deutschland Uber Alles as being one of its hymns of might. You're wrong. It is anything but that. It is a hymn of German unity, written by a liberal-minded German professor about 1841 and he promptly lost his academic position, travelled incognito from door to door begging his bread. The poem really sets limits to the geographical boundary of Germany...
Hinge of the "door" was the Fifth Army commanded by the German Crown Prince Starting from the Trier-Saarbrtücken area (where fighting is most active this time), his course was through Luxembourg and Longwy in a short arc southwest to Verdun. The Fourth Army, under Duke Albrecht, was to swing in a wider arc through Luxembourg into the dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen...
...messed up the Plan by chasing the retreating French after Bülow, on his left, had halted, thus exposing his own flank. But for these errors Moltke might have accomplished the extraordinary feat of taking Paris in 26 days by the simple process of entering a neutral side door. As it was, he got so far in that it took the Allies, with U. S. help, four years to eject the invader...
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 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe...
...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...