Word: vanguarde
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...Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which is only 55 miles from Salonika. If in the next few days or weeks this force was met by the British and the Turks-the British would be daring indeed...
...white walls, bright cupolas and date palms of Giarabub Fort, 150 miles south of Bardia, and the last East Libyan post still being held by the Italians, a great crowd of Moslems waited to make a triumphal entry when the Australian troops should take the fort. These were the vanguard of 3,000,000 Moslems of the Senussi sect. Their leader, Seyyid Idris el Senussi, was all set to re-establish an independent Senussi State under British protection. But here, and also in northern Libya, Sir Archibald and the General Officer Commander in Chief in Egypt Lieut. General Sir Henry...
...Virginia branch of the Society for Sanity in Art. Said he: "I hope there will be a few healthy fights down here." Meanwhile Walter P. Chrysler Jr. beamed, sipped punch, talked with strained, avid interest to Richmond's white-haired matrons. Said he: "Art is always the vanguard of civilization...
...Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought concessions for West Coast fishing, railroads, a trans-Isthmus pipeline. Mexican politicos thought him a U. S. Senator...
ATHENS--Greek forces today hurled back Italian troops along "the entire front" in Albania and seized strong positions for new assaults, the high command reported as dispatches from the front placed the Greek vanguard barely 45 miles from Tirana...