Word: maginot
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...forces still intact in the impregnable Maginot Line...
...Wheeler, Marshall and others of their ilk tell us that Hitler cannot cross the Atlantic and that Europe's wars are not ours. The air is full of suggestions as to what he can't do. Time was when he also couldn't get past the Maginot Line, or through the flooded fields of Holland, or up the steep mountain trails of Norway. Much is made of the fact that he has not crossed the English Channel. He was not there last September, but there are other Septembers. . . . AUBRY MILLER Alhambra, Calif...
...Bullitt the reason for the intellectual disorder was simple: the U. S. looked on the ocean as France had looked on the Maginot Line. But in speaking of the U. S. state of mind, he brought something into the open-many a spokesman who thought he was talking about U. S. defense was actually talking about what the U. S. felt and feared...
...accompaniment of clicking knitting needles, Leach attacked both Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh for their isolationist stand. "Lindbergh is Maginot-minded," he said. "He thinks of American defense only in terms of the Atlantic Ocean and 20,000,000 men of military...
...there was something about the St. Lawrence Seaway. Like most gigantic projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with...