Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alter their basic war plan from offensive to defensive. Unknown to the Germans they prepared a line of resistance behind a line of surveillance. When the German advance came last week, only French outposts remained. These withdrew slowly, leading the waves of German troops into a zone of red-hot cross-fire from machine guns and artillery. Of some 100,000 Germans involved, the French guessed they killed five to seven thousand...
Nazi Hitler, many Scandinavians feared last week, may shortly begin trying to force Sweden, Denmark and Norway into vassalage to Germany by the same threatening tactics which Bolshevik Stalin has employed successfully in recent weeks to vassalize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is now trying on Finland. Red Russia, once she got a whip hand over the Finns, would be strategically placed to threaten Scandinavia, unless Germany exerted a counterthrust, and in Stockholm last week the talk was gloomy. Current were such wry cracks as, "We shall soon know whether we Swedes are Germans or Russians...
Later in the evening Lutheran massed choirs and Swedish patriotic organizations carrying over 700 banners-among them the red flag of Swedish labor, which is Socialist-approached the Royal Palace chanting solemnly, then began to shout "Kallio! Kallio!" Dr. Kallio, often considered dour, suddenly appeared with tears of emotion in his eyes, escorted onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn...
...Sweden: yellow cross, blue field. Denmark: white on red. Norway: white & blue cross on red ground. Finland: blue on white...
After a late and humdrum start, the new season at last unrolled its red carpet and put on a white tie last week. On three successive nights celebrities and sophisticates flocked to welcome their favorite comedy-writing team, their favorite musicomedy-writing team, one of their two favorite actresses...