Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondents with the Leftist Armies, retreating before the Spanish Rightist offensive on a front of 200 miles (see map) kept darting warily up into this town or that last week, scuttling back almost as soon as they arrived. As one cabled, "the changing front is like shifting sands." In frenzied efforts to keep the People's Army fighting, such powerful speakers were rushed to the front as Communist Deputy André Marty of the French Chamber who dashed about shouting: "Fight on! French troops are coming to help you repel the Fascist hordes. If you can hold...
...France is asking a great deal of Léon Blum. Therefore 1,000,000 French War veterans through their national organization petitioned President Albert Lebrun to make exceptional use of the Presidential powers and himself head a "French Cabinet of Public Safety"-i.e. kick out the Blum Popular Front cabinet. In prompt retort the William Green of French Labor, portly Léon Jouhaux, announced in the name of 5,000,000 unionized workmen that if the Popular Front Cabinet falls "we will go the limit to set it up again-BY OUR OWN MEANS...
...Chamber of Deputies the Popular Front majority showed fight, provoked pandemonium and suspension of the session by invalidating the recent election of Rightist Jean Goy. Screamed angry Rightists, "There is no more Chamber!", but soon it was sitting again...
Catholic Angle. Nazi Bürckel front-paged, in Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper last week, photographic reproductions of a letter in which Catholics were urged to vote "Ja" in the coming plebiscite by Vienna Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, who at the bottom of his typewriting added in his own handwriting: "Heil Hitler...
Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...