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...deepest concern to the Allies were German activities on the upper reaches of their Westwall. As far north as Wesel and Emmerich, where the Rhine turns west to enter the Netherlands, workers were observed completing casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) just across the border from the Limburg point which runs down between Germany and Belgium, heavy concentrations of Nazi airplanes were reported, and heavy new concentrations of ground troops, apparently brought over from the Polish front...
...them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours, throngs gathered on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, awed...
...press conference in the President's oval office, a correspondent asked how far U. S. territorial waters (i, e., maritime frontiers) extend toward Europe. Hot off the bat Franklin Roosevelt answered: as far as U. S. interests require them to go. "Does that reach the Rhine, Mr. President?" Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head and laughed. He was, said he, talking only about salt water...
...Stuff. Last week the British and French were again up against a Siegfried Stellung (see p. 28).* Four hundred and fifty miles long, it begins at the point where the Rhine enters The Netherlands, parallels the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers about eight miles behind the Our, Sauer and Moselle Rivers, then skirts the Saar to the French border, then turns west and south along the Rhine and through the Black Forest until it reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half...
...Westwall section 100 miles east-west behind the Saar Valley, along which the Allies were feeling for a soft spot, is one of the newest. Behind it valleys run into the Rhine from the North and East. But no military observer expected any immediate smashing of the Siegfried Stellung, 1939 style...