Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Italian boats and German guns. When, last March, Rumania signed a trade treaty with Germany, gave Germany extraterritorial rights in her ports, it looked as if the country had supinely surrendered. But operation of the treaty convinced observers that Rumania had promised to give away everything for the next 2,000 years, nothing for the next few months. Moreover, last week's happenings in Rumania had warned Rumanians of steadily increasing Nazi pressure on her while the biggest Axis offensive was concentrated on Danzig (see p. 22). In seven days...
...discuss the currency issue. There being nothing more to talk about, British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie buzzed off to Lake Chuzenji. This left Japan in' just the self-righteous psychological position she has wanted all along: "We have tried sincere negotiation and the British have refused to cooperate." Next move: force...
...Flanders Plain offers the least difficult road to Paris and the French channel ports. It is a road that should be captured in summer. Flanders mud is a potent delayer during the sloppy months of the West European winter. The Belgians hope they can remain neutral in the next war, and King Leopold is a strong neutralite. But practically Belgium must ally itself with the enemy of its first invader...
...down in the muddy roads back of the old frontier, the Polish army would still have its own industrial area behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater danger from attack across the German border in the area between Breslau and the Moravian Gate. In this region many an observer believes that the first great battle of a German-Polish war may be fought...
...logic cannot predict where the next battles will be fought because: i) military men are often stupid, and 2) each side is trying to outguess the other and knows that the least likely point of attack is often the most profitable. Today General Staffs have the map of Europe spread before them and are playing a shell game with one another. Instead of three shells, however, they have half-a-dozen, each covering one of Europe's theatres of war. Not till the big guns blow the shells to bits will anyone know under which shell lies...