Word: maginot
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...SoldOut." The people of Rumania have been bled white with taxes in the past few years to build up an Army, an Air Force and the nearest thing in the Balkans to a Maginot Line - the Carol Line. These fortifications were to bulwark Rumania against an expected attack from Hungary. When in Vienna last fortnight Germany and Italy forced Rumania to give up one-half of Transylvania and the Carol Line to Hungary (TIME, Sept. 9), the instinctive reaction of many Rumanians was that the Government had let them be robbed. It took no great efforts of the Nazi Iron...
...these so-called "neutral" military observers who frequently pontificate in your footnotes? Are they the same false prophets and professional propagandists who told the American people that the French Army was the best (sic) in the world and that the Maginot Line was impregnable? Wow they tell us that the riff-R.A.F. pilots are superior to the Germans and Italians [TIME, Aug. 19]. Whence comes this sudden superiority...
...They had had to move up vast quantities of flying fuel and lubricants, mountains of bombs, of machine-gun and cannon ammunition, parachutes, spare parts. They had had to build barracks, hangars, shops, anti-aircraft and other gun emplacements, including emplacements on the Channel for heavy artillery from the Maginot Line. U. S. correspondents who toured the Luftwaffe's fighting-base areas last week saw few signs of a land army poised to invade Great Britain. It might have been concealed in areas where they were not taken. It might even have been concentrated in Norway to strike Britain...
...which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while the B. E. F. Second Corps, which he commanded, was marking time. Observers believe that, had the French commanders prepared as wisely and industriously as Sir Alan, instead of relying on the thin pillbox line of their Maginot extension, the German breakthrough could not have been so swift and disastrous. In France the Brooke system never had a chance to prove itself, for after being ordered into, then out of Belgium, the Second Corps was swung south of its prepared positions in a brief effort to close...
...Germany last week, trained to land on city housetops, equipped with burglar tools to break in, silken ropes down which to slide to the ground. They carry kernels of concentrated soot to make their own smoke screens while descending and after landing. Germany's "sealing" of the Maginot Line district last week, as well as the areas facing Britain, was interpreted as a precaution to keep prying eyes from seeing these burglars and other special troops at practice on new wrinkles...