Word: shots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strict censorship masked the question of who fired the first shot on the Western Front. The Germans had sworn it would not be they. Their basic strategy was to hold their West Wall (Siegfried or Limes Line) from the Ruhr to the Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure as would sap strength from the German drive into Poland. General understanding was that the French would conduct all operations by land, with the infantry reinforced at first only by a few mechanized British divisions. The British would take the lead...
...bases in the Midlands to Germany's naval bases at Cuxhaven, Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb?is some 500 miles. Both sides presently acknowledged that British bombers had gone to work on Germany's fleet at these ports, Britain claiming damaging hits on at least two battleships, Germany claiming to have shot down five out of twelve bombers. Soon to be settled, apparently, was the question of supremacy between airplanes and battleships. The answer has vital bearing on the Mediterranean question mark...
...everybody jumped when at the first shot the war of nerves leaped the Atlantic. All the frights in the Balkans that had seemed remote to U. S. citizens became more understandable; the pledges of neutrality of Rumania, Yugoslavia, Italy, looked a little more real in discussions of U. S. neutrality. There had been no absorbed interest in Europe's war so long as it was a word-war. U. S. citizens looked upon it with impatience, with disgusted weariness, a few with alarm. Or they saw it as an obsessed absorption with insoluble problems, pushed the whole conflict...
...Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically every other able-bodied male had followed him into khaki, Major Eden quit the docks, took off his uniform, accepted a job (as Dominion Secretary) in Neville Chamberlain's War Cabinet...
...make the German Reich and its head of state take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided to speak to the Poles in the same language as they are speaking to us. . . . Our soldiers have been shot at, and since 5:45 we have been shooting back...