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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. The English Channel was closed south of the Downs by a minefield. Across it into France, General Sir Edmund delivered some 100,000 British troops to the land forces operating under General Gamelin's supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away...
When the French retreated to the Marne in 1914, their strategy proved shrewd and salutary. For the Polish armies to fall back from the Corridor and East Prussia to a primary defense line from Loruń south through Lódź and Kielce to Cracow, and after that to the angle between the Bug and Vistula Rivers in the north and the Industrial Triangle (Cracow to Lublin to Lwow) in the south, was the strategy approved for Marshal Smigly-Rydz by his Allied military advisers (see map, p. 16). He need endanger only 15 Polish divisions by this plan...
...artillery diverted for this defense weakened the Poles on the southwest. Smashing into Cracow, Germany's armies of the south swept on into the Industrial Triangle to take Sandomierz, Poland's munitions centre. Mechanized columns, whirling far ahead of infantry following in trucks, seized Kielce, Radom, Lódź (the textile centre). The entry of one motorized unit, traveling far ahead of its support, into the heart of Warsaw, led to premature announcement of the capital's invasion on Friday. Snipers at windows, machine gunners on roofs, drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern...
...Gerald Balding, high-goal polo player, who was to have played in next week's open championships at swank Meadow Brook Club, L. I., reported to the British Embassy in Washington for instructions...
...Australian tennist has ever captured the U. S. Singles championship. Britons have-H. L. Doherty in 1903, Fred Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...