Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here, the tune had gone merrily for Germany. But all of a sudden the notes began to go flat. Finland was putting up such a fight that Russia evidently could not take on a new adventure. Moreover, in Rome the Fascist Grand Council, highest governing body of Italy, met in a lengthy night session, heard Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano expound for two hours and a half and finally conclude that "everything that may happen in the Danube Basin and the Balkans cannot help but directly interest Italy." The Soviet Government took the almost unprecedented step of squelching Communist International...
Isthmian Drive. Even more nastiness was in store for the Russians-especially in the Karelian Isthmus, historic gateway into Finland and the one Alexander I stormed with 17,000 men in 1808. Not only were roads, bridges and buildings mined-even a new bicycle left leaning against a fence was a detonator-but the Finns had utilized the geographical peculiarities of their country shrewdly...
...From the first of this month our new line of fortifications seems to have removed any hope the enemy may have entertained either of crossing or flanking the Maginot Line...
...from the Moselle to the Rhine. Starting with dozens, the Nazi raids increased to as many as 80 in a single night, in such strength that even the tough Moroccans in the Wissembourg sector had to call for artillery support to blow the raiders back. The Germans tried a new system, approaching each French outpost in separate columns or files, to bomb it with grenades from three sides simultaneously. These raids, by seasoned troops, were interpreted by the French as "information please" parties (TIME, Nov. 27), to take the place of air reconnaissance which lately cost the Germans many...
...equipment, superstructure, armaments and the like are built in the interior of the country. The time required for construction, from keel-laying to commissioning, is therefore extremely short. . . . A sufficient number of reserve crews has already been trained so that there are no difficulties on the delivery of the new vessels...