Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike their occupation of Poland, where they marched in upon the rear of an already demoralized foe, this attack was upon a well-prepared, straight-shooting, determined people facing front. It was at least 2,000,000 trained men and 5,000 airplanes against 200,000 trained men and 150 airplanes, but the tough-fibred Finns provided a test for the Red war machine which the rest of the world watched intently. From the outset it was apparent that the Reds could not match the Nazis at Blitzkrieg...
...Patrol activity on the Moselle-Rhine front reached the level of Indian fighting, the French claiming success at tree-to-tree dodging...
...Rome some 300 uniformed Fascist youths, returning from afternoon drill, broke ranks and demonstrated violently in front of the Soviet Embassy. Most Italian papers were cautious in their comments but Il Telegrafo, organ of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, disapprovingly observed, "In the great Nordic plain of the Continent the wolves are having their...
Greatest enigma of Europe this week is precisely the question: Who will leave whom in the lurch? In the chancelleries of Europe and especially in Paris it was beginning to be said: "More and more the war seems unlikely to be fought on the Western Front, and sooner or later...
...Eastern Front will become a reality." "The result of the war is not to be decided only by military operations," Premier Edouard Daladier significantly declared. "In the final decision the evolution of international policy and the relationship between powers and the action of moral forces will play a big part." Evolving at an ominous pace were the international policies and relationships of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini...