Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While Kluck and Bülow drove through British resistance at Mons, the main French offensive, in the Ardennes, failed. The Third and Fourth German Armies crushed through on schedule, and the retreat to the Marne, though orderly, was saved from being a rout with Paris captured only because General Helmuth von Moltke, the German Commander in Chief: 1) weakened Kluck's Army by taking from it troops to police Belgium, 2) abandoned the classic outline of the Schlieffen Plan by letting Kluck swing east of Paris instead of west. Kluck further messed up the Plan by chasing...
...defensive fire. The confident Allied view is that if Germany should strike again from Aachen, the Belgians could hold her until French and British forces could come up at least to the canal and the secondary defense behind the Liége forts. In command of Belgian defense is General E. M. Van den Bergen, who has been busy on plans and works since the Belgian Parliament voted to intensify them...
...Amsterdam triangle. To give their waters time to rise, the Dutch mined all roads and bridges entering their country from Germany. They erected tank obstructions and traps, leaving only one lane open for normal traffic on each highway bridge. Their Army stood mobilized at about 650,000 under Lieut. General I. H. Reynbers, 60, a short, jolly infantryman who was the personal appointee of Queen Wilhelmina five years...
...Radek? "The population of [Polish] villages and towns . . . enthusiastically meets the Red Army. The mighty Red Army and the high cultural level of its rank and file evoke general admiration. The population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the traditional bread and 'salt [tokens of brotherhood] on embroidered towels and invited Red Army men into their houses." So said Tass, the official Soviet news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons...
...Still Waiting..." Although the German campaign in Poland was "ended" according to General Brauchitsch who left last week for the Western Front, the agony of Warsaw only increased. As the Vistula flows through Poland's former Capital, Warsaw was sliced by the Military Division theoretically into German and Soviet parts. But the whole city continued to resist while the High Commands carved it up on paper...