Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Danzig churned with rumors like a pot coming to boil. Because Nazis interfered with Polish customs guards, Warsaw closed the frontier to certain goods, sent a note to the Danzig Senate demanding that interference cease, offering to negotiate. Danzig's Nazi press screamed that Poland had opened a trade war, and the rumors began: at 7 o'clock August 6 trouble would break when Nazis refused to recognize the authority of customs officials; highly placed Poles were preparing to flee; stories from Berlin had German officers getting assignments for August 19 in the Polish towns...
...fitting, France, with the greater Army, entrusted its mission to a general; England, with the greater fleet, sent an admiral. Russia, eager to be shown that the two democracies can back up their word if they choose to keep it, appointed its highest officers to receive the mission. Russia's chief delegate was Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov...
Marching into position on Sept. 5, French Moroccan troops accidentally collided with Kluck's cavalry and reserves. Kluck sent corps after corps to reinforce them, opened a hole between the First and Second German armies through which British and French troops, advancing on schedule, poured the next day. The Second German Army retreated north and east, separated further from Kluck's men, who were now being attacked from the rear. Three days later, faced with disaster, the whole German front withdrew, retreated 60 miles in five days, abandoned the attack on Paris, lost the chance of a lightning...
...than 1,000,000 men were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind the German lines. On a 75-mile front the Allied lines gave way as the British lost 150,000 men and British and French liaison was broken. The French VI Army Corps was sent in to plug the gap and Gamelin's 9th Division, first in position, faced six German divisions rolling forward under the tremendous momentum of their advance...
Brazil to Syria to Home. In 1919 General Gamelin headed the French military mission to Brazil, a job requiring the greatest tact since the old German pre-War influence in the Brazilian Army was still strong. In 1925 he was recalled and soon sent to Syria to help put down the Druse revolt, a suppression which he later succeeded in accomplishing alone with considerable bloodshed on the part of the Druses. He was on hand when French planes and artillery wiped out 1,456 civilians in the native quarters of Damascus, thus proving that Maurice Gamelin had no particular interest...