Word: maginot
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...Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann der Cherusker, who in the First Century ambushed three legions of Romans in the Teutoburg Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans for their legions, and the leader of one of these fifth columns, Odovacar the Goth, overthrew the Roman Empire...
Lowering the draft age would solve none of these problems. Its effect would be to insure perpetuation of military training after the emergency is over, and we would have a French-style, one-year-trained army which couldn't defend even a Maginot or an Atlantic...
...issue on which almost all Americans can agree at once, says Baldwin, is hemisphere defense. He does not mean the passive defense of which the Maginot, Mannerheim and Metaxas Lines are the tragic symbols. Passive defense, he claims, is one of the things that destroyed France, came near to destroying England. The U.S. and its Latin American allies must not just sit tight behind the oceans and wait to be coventrized. Hemisphere defense must be aggressive defense. It must base itself on the British bastion as long as that bastion can hold out. This means continued aid to Britain without...
...retired underground, and conked Nazis one by one as they tried to enter. Altogether the Nazis claimed 80,000 Greeks in Thrace; possibly there were not more than 30,000. As they were gradually cleaned out, the Metaxas Line took its place in the rank of sad, futile names: Maginot Line, Mannerheim Line, Albert Canal, Carol's Line...
...spent two weeks with the British forces. He saw them in action, decided that two things were combining to defeat Italy in Egypt and Libya: 1) the individual superiority of the British soldier; 2) the fact that the Italians made the desert their enemy (i.e., shut themselves up in Maginot-like forts), while the British made it their ally. From North Africa the footloose Colonel went to Athens, where he found the British laying plans to widen their front. The Greeks were frightened of too much British aid, thought it would provoke the Germans. Colonel Donovan interrupted his stay...