Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sophomore John C. Baker has joined the American Division of the French Foreign Legion and will probably soon be stationed in either the Maginot Line or Morocco, it was learned recently through letters addressed to William T. Munson '42 and John F. Seiberling...
...Brooks, another Junior letterman, whose one-man Maginot Line almost halted Michigan last Fall, seems to be definitely in at one tackle post, but the other remains wide open. Pond is testing three men for this assignment, Seniors George Seabury and Cy Taylor, and Junior Jerry Knapp. So far there has been little to choose between them. Taylor is a veteran letterman, while Knapp was ineligible last Fall after starring on his Freshman team...
...supply. But Allied and neutral apprehensions inclined toward the explanation denied by Dr. Goebbels. From near Aachen the great German juggernaut started rolling 25 years ago. Transit of the Lowlands has always been the basic principle of German war to the west. Nature made it so long before the Maginot Line was built...
This time the side door to France, while not so strong as her eastern portals, is doubly locked and bolted. Within France along the Belgian border runs an extension of the Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe...
...counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours, throngs gathered on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, awed at the fireworks of a French aerial foray, apparently against...