Word: mained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's offensive had the sweep of a great military campaign. Resistance to it had a kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints...
...main battle against Poland settled to a deadlock; the flank attack through the Balkans did not progress...
...Main source of disquiet were the "holiday" travels and talks of small, suave, dark Count Stephan Csaky, Foreign Minister and big landowner, who signed Hungary into the Anti-Comintern Pact. When Führer Hitler and Count Ciano met in the mountains of Bavaria last fortnight, Count Csaky was near by, remaining at the foot of the mountain but conferring daily with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. When Count Ciano flew back to Rome, Count Csaky soon followed. When Count Ciano was too busy to see the U. S., British or French Ambassadors, he still had time to spend...
This means that on the offense the French would have a dozen jumping-off places for diversions to mask a drive over one of the three main routes into Spain. If, as is more likely, they decided to quarantine Spain for the duration of the war, a comparative handful of French soldiers could be shuttled from end to end of the Pyrenees holding at bay a much larger number of Spaniards who would not have the advantage of such a transportation network...
...Boys-from-Syracuse fixes have complicated the steady lives of the boys from Rochester, but they face routine confusions. Recent example: a friend mistook Bill for Rob on Main Street, apologized for his error when Bill identified himself. Few days later he stopped Bill again and told him of his mistake, again sure he was Rob. Bill did not bother to explain. After 70 years it is an old story...