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...between Saarbrücken and Saarlautern, the French found the woods "full of destruction and traps of all kinds." But by week's end that forest and the Bienwald farther east was theirs. Several Moroccan regiments and at least one British division were said to be in the Saar advance. The fighting got down to bayonets...
Tactics. Terse communiqués from the French War Ministry grew increasingly informative as the week's action developed in the Saar sector. Between the massive, deep networks of the Westwall proper and the international boundary, were not only forests of trees, but forests of pill boxes and blockhouses (called "Bunkers" by the Germans), bristling with machine guns and connected by deep trenches with the main fortifications behind. The machine guns were so placed that every foot of passable terrain was swept by two or more death-spitting muzzles. First task of the French was to feel out these...
...Papen intrigue took place in Austria, where he was sent as Ambassador to prepare the way for Anschluss. His big moment came when he arranged the Hitler-Schuschnigg conference at Berchtesgaden which sealed the fate of independent Austria. Since then he has been living on his estate in the Saar, where he rides, fishes, plays tennis. Last winter he delivered several innocuous lectures in Sweden...
...After the solution of this question" he said on the Saar issue in the Reichstag on Jan. 30, 1934, "The German Government is willing and determined to accept in its innermost soul as well as external formulation the Pact of Locarno...
...Locarno Pact, which he held in such high respect, stipulated that Germany would arbitrate or conciliate any border disputes in Western Europe. After a plebiscite, Herr Hitler revised the borders of Germany to include the Saar Basin (see map)-area: 738 square miles; population: 812,000; resources: coal, iron, steel, heavy industries...