Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooke's Barricade. What the correspondents saw was a defense-in-depth system beginning at the beaches with barbed wire and machine-gun nests, some of them made of bathing machines (bath houses on wheels) filled with pebbles. Tank traps, road blocks, concealed artillery filled the defense zone to a depth of 20 miles (see pictures, p. 31). Mobile and mechanized forces were poised farther inland, to be rushed wherever needed. The system was the same, with improvements based on bitter experience, as the one which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while...
...formation of a huge Cabinet, Premier Konoye called together these three men to clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members out of the Cabinet, at least until...
...cherished civil liberties were falling by the wayside. Last week Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson introduced into the House of Commons a bill which proposed putting an end to the most sacrosanct right of all -trial by jury. The bill provided for special, emergency war-zone courts which could pass any sentence, including death. Sir John Anderson's Emergency Powers Act was already excuse for the Silent-Column arrests and trials. Wrote the News Chronicle: "Begging your pardon, Sir John, we would remind you that you are no longer in Bengal. ... No doubt the purpose of recent...
...right up the professional alley of Dick Moore, who has been a supervising engineer on the U. S.'s great rivers, had a detail to Peru with the United States Naval Mission in 1928-30, commanded combat engineers and headed up the Atlantic Sector of the Canal Zone. A general officer since 1938, he was in command of the 18th Infantry Brigade in the Zone when George Marshall tapped...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...