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Laval, like all French politicians, had his politique, and Laval's politique was cooperation with Italy to keep Germany behind the Rhine and the Brenner. But that policy came into conflict with Great Britain's desire to keep Italy weak in the Mediterranean, and with the French people's dislike of fascism, whether German or Italian...
When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
...been the case, a British Cabinet Minister declares that England's frontier is the Rhine, this is really the limit both as regards stupidity and unbearable arrogance. It could hardly be more stupid to declare that Germany's frontier is the Mississippi,* or the Amazon, or the Yangtze...
Over the Meuse, over the Scheldt and Rhine...
...opened, 1,000 Detroit socialites braved wintry winds to attend. By week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown...