Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent to the war, electrified at its new menace (see p. 21); Japanese, signing an armistice with Russia...
...Moselle), but they did not yet go up against the firm ramparts of the Westwall. It was unlikely they would do so before the French artillery-ponderous 155-mm. howitzers lobbing shells from far behind; flat-shooting 755 moving up into the cleared area-have pounded at the Wall forts for many days. The concrete fortresses of the Maginot Line are 150 ft. deep in some places and hard as flint. French hope was that the Westwall concrete, poured more hastily, can be pulverized by France's really heavy artillery...
...meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing...
Warsaw. "Children with staring eyes . . . led blindly away as if pursued by a ghost. . . . The picture of corpses still stands before my eyes. One little hand detached from a corpse ... a child's brains bashed on the wall...
...tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...