Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armies of France and Germany last week executed two more steps in their slow, solemn, martial minuet between the Moselle and the Rhine, the Westwall and the Maginot Line. Germany stepped forward the distance that the French had advanced since Sept. 3. The French, in perfect rhythm, stepped back, slaughtering the Germans as they came, as befitted accomplished war dancers...
...Mulhouse), due warning was given to the German side. Evacuation of 300,000 civilians from Mulhouse to Biarritz on the Bay of Biscay was begun by the French this week. This hinted that the French may expect a real German push at her Belfort Gate, south end of the Maginot-Westwall stalemate, or through the Swiss side door. > Machine gunners on the forefront of the German advance wore steel armor covering them from neck to crotch. Weighing 30 Ibs. but only 1/20 in. thick, this gear was more psychological than practical. It would deflect only spent rifle or pistol bullets...
...push along a four-mile front, but the first attack in force the Germans have made. It came along the northern flank through the Moselle Valley-an offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were slowly driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into the no-man's-land between the Maginot Line...
Lithuanian Maginot? Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys, who followed Estonia's Selter and Latvia's Munters to Moscow, was reputedly presented with a startling Soviet proposal that the Red Army should construct strong fortifications along the Lithuanian frontier with Germany and should have the main railways crossing Lithuania from her ports to Russia permanently patrolled by Soviet forces, in addition to establishment of Red "bases." Lithuania asked that its former capital Wilno, which was seized in 1920 by Poland and thus has now passed into Soviet hands be "restored." The Moscow radio announced that "the workers of Wilno...
Last week, on the first full-fledged Saturday of the football season, U. S. citizens momentarily stopped criticizing military maneuvers on the Maginot Line, turned their attention to the field maneuvers of their favorite college football teams. Some of the games that kept them kibitzing long after the sun went down...