Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corriere della Sera, leading newsorgan of Italy's Pittsburgh (Milan): "This is the West which retreats in the face of the union of the East-a Bunion which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...
...Stampa of Turin: "German domination gave in only after hard fighting to the victorious Russian advance of Peter the Great's armies, without, however, being completely eliminated. . . . The Germans [now] leave behind them habits of culture which can be eradicated only by violent substitution of another regime, such as the Bolshevik...
Last week rain fell continuously on the Western Front. In the 20-mile sector north of the Swiss border which faces the rocky fortress of Istein-Germany's "Gibraltar of the Rhine"-sodden French infantrymen came in from patrol to report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...
Over all the front from Luxembourg to Switzerland the German forces were ominously quiet. During the fore part of the week Allied soldiers were busy with endless patrolling, laid a few ambushes and made a few raids to get prisoners for questioning by their intelligence officers. But toward week's end came sounds from the German line that Allied officers liked less than the boom of German guns...
...From the German artillery-silence. Did it mean that it had been reinforced, was in new positions? Did it mean the Germans held their fire because they did not want to expose their new position to counterbattery fire from the Allied side of the line? Allied officers feared it did, got set for a push...