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...from the part of Poland which they have acquired the Germans can march southeastward to outflank both these rivers. In fact it would be practical and might (Continued on third page following) be politically advantageous for them to undertake the entire invasion from this direction...
...protect herself from German invasion. If she could advance her frontier from the Pruth to the summit of the Carpathians she could deprive Germany of one jumping-off place into the Ukraine. Since the danger would remain of this line being outflanked by a German advance southeastward from Poland, the risk of war with Germany in order to seize the Carpathians is probably not worth it in Joseph Stalin's calculating mind...
...punched swiftly across the Somme delta to the Bresle River, then down to Forges-les-Eaux, a little spa east of Rouen. The Allied line closed behind these raiders, whose objective was to cut Paris' communications to the sea and to force Wey-gand's main retreat southeastward. Allied planes, bombing and machine-gunning, attacked the clanking intruders in swarms...
Four divisions of German troops, about 60,000 men, moving southeastward into the Russian-held portion of old Poland. How far were they going? What were they going...
...made in a line of pillboxes and blockhouses running from Zwolle south through Nijmegen all the way to Maastricht, behind the Ijssel and Maas (Meuse) Rivers (see map). While this line held, the civilian population would be taken behind a second defense system, called the Grebbe Line, extending southeastward to Nijmegen from Eem on the Ijssel Lake (the diked, reclaimed Zuider...