Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German World War II tank commander, exponent and early practitioner of the blitzkrieg; of circulatory difficulties; in a Russian prison camp. Product of the Prussian military caste, Von Kleist contributed decisively to France's swift collapse by sending his Panzer divisions racing around the northern end of the Maginot Line. In 1945 he surrendered to two American soldiers (to avoid being captured "in the presence of common, retreating German soldiers"), was sentenced to 15 years as a war criminal by the Yugoslavs, who then turned him over to the Russians...
Just before World War II Cogny was promoted to battery commander. In the early skirmishes of the war he won the Croix de guerre. But the German armored divisions rumbled smoothly through Belgium and swerved northeastward behind the Maginot Line. Among the 780,000 French prisoners was Captain René Cogny...
Last week one of the most influential voices in Britain spoke out against trying to build a Maginot Line of the air. Arthur William, Lord Tedder, Britain's top air strategist in World War II, deputy commander of SHAEF under Eisenhower and now vice chairman of the BBC, said that any reliance on passive defense (meaning a huge complex of radar screens, interceptor planes and antiaircraft weapons) would not "provide a deterrent to aggression [but would] bankrupt the free world and hand it over to Communism and chaos without a blow...
...presented directly to the National Security Council and the White House. As we also stated, the air generals not only resent this "end run"; they also have a professional deformation on the subject of air defense. They say: "Offense is the best defense." They warn against a "Maginot Line of the air." What they really mean is that an air defense may compete, especially for appropriations, with the Strategic Air Command...
...answer is rather loudly demanded by TIME'S [March 30] story, "Maginot Line of the Air," about our recent series on Project Lincoln and the air-defense problem. TIME asserted that our "implication that Lincoln was the Government's prime concern collapsed like a pricked balloon," when subjected to careful checking . . . We wrote [that] the Lincoln findings are being "seriously considered" by the President and "actively discussed" by the National Security Council . . . Let us look at the facts...