Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn hope for non-partisan harmony in the crisis, a hope that "at least for the time being no effort will be made to criticize the Administration. . . ." ¶The American Red Cross ordered 50 more air-conditioned ambulances, 100 auxiliary hospital trucks, ten field hospitals, quantities of surgical instruments; drove...
...arranged constituted the burden of Germany's bill of particulars last week against Belgium. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop extended the accusation to include spying by Belgians to help Britain and France mount an offensive against the Reich's industrial heart in the Rhineland. The German High Command protested that Belgium's fortresses and military obstacles were all directed against Germany, none against France; that 14 out of 21 Belgian divisions mobilized last October were stationed in the east; that "this one-sided deployment" was not changed when Britain and France massed troops along Belgium's south...
...Adolf Hitler struck savagely at the Low Countries (see p. 22). Desperately Mr. Chamberlain appealed to Laborites Attlee and Arthur Greenwood and to Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair to join a National Government. But both Labor and Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity. And Labor, meeting in a Party conference at Bournemouth, knew exactly what it wanted: Churchill as Prime Minister, its two leaders in a five-man War Cabinet, Sir John Simon and Sir Samuel Hoare...
...then joined the Red Army and (by a process since abolished) was elected an officer. After the Whites whipped his Red unit in the Caucasus, Comrade Timoshenko escaped to Tsaritsyn, then defended by Red Army forces under Stalin and Voroshilov, with whom he became fast friends. They gave him command of a cavalry brigade and in 1920, while attacking Baron Wrangel's forces at Perekop in the Crimea, Timoshenko was severely wounded and his brigade was cut to pieces by the Whites...
When the Red Army began to misfire in Finland, the Dictator summoned Semion Timoshenko to Leningrad, placed him in command of the operations which ultimately broke the Mannerheim Line...