Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition Great Britain would grant complete independence to the Dominion of Canada. This last act would be a nice gesture of respect for our Monroe Doctrine and remove one more foreign nation from the Western Hemisphere...
Fritz Kuhn, No. 1 U. S. Nazi, walked into his Manhattan office at 9 a.m. the morning German troops walked into Poland, immediately changed his map of Europe to make all western Poland the map color of Germany. Said Kuhn: "It will be all over in a few days...
...their list of public-enemies-at-large. Ahead of and just below him were four bank robbers. Last week G-Men in Chicago caught his successor in No. 4 position: Joseph Paul Cretzer, a mustached punkaroo who has been popping in & out of western jails since 1927. Arrested with him in a dreary Chicago flat was his wife, Edna May ("Teddy") Cretzer, who pinked a police-man during a getaway last June...
...this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines for the time being. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil or consider himself at war with them, he determined on the complete shattering and subjugation of Poland. Ordering his other generals to hold the Western Front (see p. 28), he made the gesture of joining General von Brauchitsch "somewhere" on the Polish Front. There, by this week, the German offensive was focused in six main lines...
Grand strategy of the Polish Armies was to retire slowly, conserve manpower, shorten their lines. Their Western stand was to be on a line running south from Torun to Czestochowa. From there South to behind Teschen they had a fortified front which the German divisions must crack or outflank...