Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting...
...Like the pamphleteering flights, British and French observation planes ranged over Germany, while German reconnaissance crews looked over French terrain to get information for Nazi intelligence maps. No losses were reported and the lie was given to German boasts that no hostile airplane could cross Nazi anti-aircraft defenses...
...from Europe took on its greatest change. Correspondents who step by step and hour by hour had reported the inevitably developing crisis, now found their stories crazily whirling and blurring. If the last weeks of peace had the solemnity of tragedy, the first days of World War II were like one of those old-fashioned movies in which people jerked their arms, exaggerated motions, and in which automobile wheels turned backwards while automobiles raced ahead...
...have achieved what has been considered unbelievable." They wanted to hear that the Westwall was safe. He said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain his goal." They wanted praise: "No power on earth has such a munitions industry. None has as good skilled workers. None has such...
...Lord Macmillan's first task was to undo Britain's reputation for cleverness, he could not have started more brilliantly. Nobody could accuse Britain's propaganda of functioning smoothly last week. It was clumsy, amateurish, slow-starting, gave an impression like that of a sincere but badly staged show in which stagehands dropped things during big speeches, and the curtain came down at the wrong time...