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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Triangle. Ultimate core of Polish defense is the triangular Central Region of Industry (C. O. P.) between Cracow on the west, Lwów on the east, Lublin on the north. Into this area, guarded by highlands, served by two rivers, Poland two years ago moved her vital steel and munitions works, built power plants, at a cost...
...East Poland's defenses are not concentrated. Only five fortified cities piece out the distances not protected by the morasses of the many-branched Pripet River, to stave out the Red Army which last week growled ominously (see p. 35). Should the Red Army move west, Poland would desperately need Rumanians, Turks and Greeks to help man its eastern marches...
...heard in Western Europe on Black Sunday, but soon after midnight, The Netherlands listened to wave after wave of thrumming, high-flying airplanes speeding southeast-by-east along the coast. (The neutral Netherlands next day duly "protested.") Monday brought word that some of these planes had "bombarded" Germany with 6,000,000 leaflets in German, telling A. Hitler's people...
...continuous defense bastion. First "contact" (man to man) fighting was known to be on German soil, in the hell-raked strip between the two Lines. For an invasion of Germany, France is far better off now than in 1914 for she holds Alsace-Lorraine with its high escarpments jutting east toward Germany above Strasbourg...
...until Admiral Nelson won it for Great Britain 134 years ago, no power ruled over the Mediterranean unchallenged. The Romans and the Carthaginians, Genoa and Naples, the pirates of Tripoli, the Crusaders and the Turks, again and again the East fought the West in its waters, the North fought the South, the powers of Africa and Asia fought the powers of Europe, societies, civilizations, monarchs, rose or fell with the fate of their fleets on the tumultuous...