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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office's wish to keep the visit secret had been firmly overridden by George VI, who said: "My people have a right to know where I am, and I don't wish the first news ... to be reported by Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen...
...After George VI was safe home in England, fact was released that he had: spent six nights abroad; gone within range of German guns; been told that, for this war's first time, British ground troops had (under French direction) engaged the enemy...
...Finland's preparations, Russia's press exploded in wrath. Wrote Nikolai Virta in Pravda (from Terijoki, where Russia has set up its joke People's Government): "When our tired men wanted to drink, they found all the village wells filled with earth. . . . Hardly had the first Red fighter set foot on Finnish soil when an explosion rent the air-a mine! Mines are everywhere." Even the Russian soldiers were indignant. Writer Virta quoted one as saying: "What cads! . . . They are masters of foul play. How well they make such nastiness...
...From the first of this month our new line of fortifications seems to have removed any hope the enemy may have entertained either of crossing or flanking the Maginot Line...
...from the French front Jines last week, but not before Correspondent Kenneth T. Downs of International News Service managed, with a comrade, to spend three days and two nights at outposts held by Moroccans in the Vosges foothills near Wissembourg. His account of this trip was one of the first notable pieces of reporting in World War II. Excerpts...