Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where the War makes news in such general fields as music, science, education, it will be reported in TIME'S general departments. For example, this week for war songs see p. 68, for the evolution of poison gases see p. 51, for an account of the evacuation of London school children...
Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...
...take and keep this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering and subjugation of Poland. Ordering his other generals to hold the Western Front (see p. 28), he made the gesture of joining General von Brauchitsch "somewhere" on the Polish Front. There, by this week, the German offensive was focused in six main lines...
...predictably fair weeks of Polish autumn lay ahead for action on the fat Polish plains. Then will come rains which the Poles hope will bog down the German juggernaut on the purposely unpaved roads leading in from the borders. In the mountain passes on the South soon will come General Snow to aid the defenders...
...Western Front. The Germans had sworn it would not be they. Their basic strategy was to hold their West Wall (Siegfried or Limes Line) from the Ruhr to the Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure as would sap strength from the German drive into Poland. General understanding was that the French would conduct all operations by land, with the infantry reinforced at first only by a few mechanized British divisions. The British would take the lead...