Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By now, it was clear that the Germans feared the First Army's strength most of all the forces they faced in the west. They warned themselves of U.S. concentrations "for a grand-scale assault" aimed at the Cologne plain east of Geilenkirchen (twelve miles north of Aachen). To...
Strongest in Westphalia, the Feme of 700 years ago had a Robin Hood flavor. But by 1500, the Feme had become a synonym for persecution. Membership had grown above 100,000 and many used the protection of the Feme for their own ends. But such was its terror that less...
Shadowy Link. The revived Feme of the Weimar Republic was dedicated to the destruction of democracy, the resurrection of Teutonism and Junkerdom. It started in Bavaria. After World War I, German nationalists flocked together in societies, some of them secret like the C Organization, some studiedly innocent like the German...
Clothing. "Zoot" suits - the green-and-brown camouflaged apparitions worn early in the war - have been discarded by the Army (marines still wear them). Nowadays soldiers wear a two-piece jungle uniform made of green herringbone twill. Because medics insist, it is thick enough to keep out mosquitoes and leeches...
¶ In Italy, the most effective agency of protection for art works was the Vatican, which eventually worked with Allied Civil Affairs officers.