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...picture of people afraid of being afraid, Journey's End has at times a batlike psychological terror more harrowing than the physical horror of an All Quiet on the Western Front. But it lacks the butt end of the rifle, the stench and anarchy and virile thrust of war; and it snobbishly refuses to make death, fear and pain the universal levelers they are. Its public-school products writhe and suffer behind locked lips; its Cockneys are pure comic effect. But if the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, the World...
...some concrete, the Siegfried Position consisted of barbed wire entanglements, behind which came intrenchments and pillboxes connected with secondary intrenchments. Behind these were independent forts and strong points. From these, reserve troops, stationed far enough in the rear to be out of reach of enemy artillery, could be thrust out in any direction in counterattacks when the attacking enemy was exhausted by its advance. At this point the zonal defense system became an ideal means of launching a powerful offensive...
...counterattack from a protected rear. A break-through would be the signal for the great rear fortifications to open up with heavy artillery fire (spare gun-barrels as well as a large supply of munitions are cached in deep caverns connected by tunnel railways). Mobile troops, hitherto protected, would thrust out at the invading flanks. The cushion-&-spring force would be terrific...
...help him in the task which the mad whims of geography, history and Adolf Hitler thrust upon him last week, Marshal Smigly-Rydz had an able and unpronounceable panel of generals and colonels. Also behind him was Poland's Parliament, 96 businessmen, professors, writers in the Senate, 208 bureaucrats in the Sejm, 304 yes-men chosen from a maze of political parties by a rigged system of electoral committees. This parliamentary front was assembled last week to enact emergency war measures...
...that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there is a trough, along which Italian troops could move to intercept a Franco-British thrust into the Balkans...