Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, newsmen overseas, headline writers and readers in the U. S. began to understand each other about what was happening on the Western Front. The French were advancing by inches, not miles. Last week, official figures delineated the exact extent of Allied advance in the first four weeks...
...Along the entire 100-mile French-German border from Luxembourg to the Rhine, 155 square miles had been occupied-an average penetration of exactly 1.55 miles...
...great Warndt Forest," forming a "huge pocket into French territory," accounted for over half of the total square mileage: 15 miles wide by eight miles deep...
...enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
However, if Herr Hitler should lose his temper over these dilatory tactics, if the presence of French troops on German soil should suddenly strike him as intolerable, if he should decide to solve a tactical problem by restoring order in The Netherlands, or protecting a minority in Luxembourg, then Sam would quickly be prevailed upon to pick up his musket...