Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps the day will come." Now that Poland was subjugated and Germany was on such excellent terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague...
About 15,000 Poles were recruited in France to fight on the Western Front by energetic General Wladyslaw Sikorski before he was named Premier last fortnight of the expatriate Government of Poland set up in Paris (TIME, Oct. 9).* He has enough Polish officers for 30 divisions, but no uniforms; these are being hastily made up. Last week General Sikorski, after instructing his Finance Minister Colonel Adam Koc to try to get from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard...
...ersatz (substitute) front, teenage German girls were sent out to gather "herbs from which substitute tea can be made...
...official Soviet radio news summaries of proceedings in the House of Commons, pointed omission was made of Winston Churchill's declaration that Britain, France and Russia have a "common interest" in checking German agression. Moscow press and radio descriptions of Allied pulling of punches on the Western Front gave most Russians the definite impression that a truce to World War II was already at hand. Red Fleet, organ of the Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine...
...Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...