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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maurice Gustave Gamelin, the tight-lipped little Allied Generalissimo, last week held his first War II press reception for U. S. news correspondents. At the Ecole Militaire he received a delegation including five U. S. by-liners about to be taken up to the Maginot Line for the first time...
France, he said, is fighting now for a reason precisely parallel to the U. S.'s reason last time. "France was not attacked. But she has taken up arms in defense of a principle . . . that small nations have the same right to live as large nations, if civilization is...
If the news correspondents wished to see action, the one salient to which they should have been sent was Forbach, the French industrial town (pop. 11,491) which is a small counterpart of Germany's Saarbrücken, five miles northeast. Forbach is outside the Maginot Line and its...
Spy scares thrill England almost daily. At war's outbreak some 6,000 suspects were rounded up. Last week it was reported that a film showing tests of a new British gun had disappeared. Last month the following advertisements appeared in London's World's Fair (theatrical...
The Royal Air Force turned out by Canada will be younger and older than it used to be-age limits have been dropped three years to 18, pushed up two years to 27. What used to be a ten-month elementary course has been telescoped into 16 weeks. (Many of...