Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her." De Gaulle had to nurse his dreams. He inveighed against the doctrines of static defense (the Maginot Line) which be mused the General Staff. He urged an elite, mechanized, relatively small army of attack. Almost nobody listened except the Germans, who applied his teachings in the development of the streamlined Reichswehr and later the mighty Wehrmacht...
Most Americans long believed that the best way to be safe was to ring the nation with a Maginot Line of battleships, sit tight on U.S. arms at home. Last week, with the U.S. Navy scattered to the seven seas and over 5,000,000 troops scheduled to be abroad by July, the U.S. felt safer than it had since the war began. As evidence that the best defense is still attack, the Army and Navy began emptying men from U.S. coastal defenses, to ship them overseas. The Army ended all inland practice blackouts. Coastal areas henceforth will be "alerted...
Failure and Achievement. Thus at its eleventh volume Men of Good Will is a monumental failure. Like the Maginot Line itself, it seemed flawless on the blueprints. Like that triumph of engineering, it is full of trap doors and secret passages and it has room in it for an army which, however, might be more useful in the field. Readers may study it with something of the same interest with which the German General Staff and Foreign Office studied the archives of the French Intelligence, Finance Ministry and Foreign Office when they captured Paris. But few will read...
...Nigeria, British West Africa, a village chief was recently giving shelter to two natives wanted on criminal charges. Around his village, the chief built a "Maginot Line" of thornbush to keep out the authorities who wished to arrest the wanted men. For the first time in the history of human conflict the mechanical bulldozer-a contraption which is used to level bumpy ground-was to go into battle with fighter cover...
...President moved swiftly along his jerry-built Maginot Line against inflation, shoring up the timbers, nailing up the windows and doors against the attack. But it was a terrible task; too many things had been let slide or mismanaged. Political bloc was arraigned against political bloc, farm bloc against labor, pressure group against pressure group. Franklin Roosevelt was partly at fault; he had not discouraged their warfare...