Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Actium, in 31 B. C., while spellbound land forces stopped fighting to watch, Octavian's Roman fleet struck the Eastern fleet of Antony and Cleopatra, until Antony's soldiers saw their leader abandon the fight, sail off with the Egyptian queen...
...accompanying the new Ambassador were loudly trumpeted as a "military commission." The fright: more evidence that Joseph Stalin was getting set to work with Germany if Poland was easily overrun. >Nobody paid much attention when Rumania rejoiced at Italy's neutrality, set to work strengthening her Eastern frontier, discussed a non-aggression pact with Hungary...
...because his sketches were "below standard." For the rejection he blamed the Jews. Two days after his Reichstag speech he addressed a proclamation to the German people, saying: "It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust which . . . hates our new Reich." Then he prepared to leave for the Eastern Front, where his Army and that of Smigly-Rydz, an able if academic landscapist, were locked in a painters...
...they liked each other, and Pilsudski persuaded the young student to give up painting and take up sharpshooting. He did, so enthusiastically that by 1916 he won a gold watch as the best marksman in the (then Austrian) Army. He fought under his leader against Russia on the Eastern Front of the World War, and afterwards fought the ill-armed Bolsheviks in Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine. Such claim as Edward Smigly-Rydz can lay to being a military genius rests principally on those experiences and on the teachings of the French military mission which went to Poland...