Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week last fall, many a U. S. armchair general, vicariously glorying in the dash and glamor of Stuart, Forrest and Sheridan, thought he saw cavalry go down forever with the evening sun. That first week in September the famed Polish cavalry threw itself into the path of the German mechanized columns, and was swept out of the way like rubbish. But hard-boiled military men, especially the Germans, knew that cavalry was still a long way from being scrap-heaped. The Poles' mistake had been to use cavalry as striking forces rather than as screens and feelers. The Germans...
Finland, which last fall showed more spunk than the rest of the Baltic countries put together, was in line for more trouble last week. A gang from the Association-for-Peace-&-Friendship-Between-Finland-and-the-Soviet-Union (for which Moscow claims 20,000 members, Helsinki 200) started a fire in a public square in Helsinki. A Canadian volunteer who had fought in the Russo-Finnish War shot one of the Peace-&-Friendship boys. In Moscow, Tass began blustering against Finland and an incident appeared to be in the making...
...efficiency of Georges Mandel, before the fall of France Minister of Colonies under Daladier (and later of Interior), was often characterized as "deadly." Last week, ironically, this deadliness seemed to be catching up with both his person and his work. He was the first on the list of civil trials (see p. 27). And one of France's colonies on which he lavished his efforts was apparently doomed...
Suspicious foreigners suggested another possible reason for the order, that spy-conscious British diplomats feared their tars would fall into the hands of Uruguayan Mata-Haris...
...trying to save some of Europe's un-blown-out brains. He had already succeeded in evacuating many of Germany's best scholars. Last week he and the U. S. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars were after those trapped in France. Not since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 drove eastern scholars into western Europe has there been such a wholesale migration of culture...