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...Extended troop movements at the Swiss and Luxembourg extremities of the front were observed by the Allies, despite a "flying Westwall"- a stronger than usual barrier of fighter planes kept up continuously by the Germans to prevent observation behind their lines. Simultaneously the German Air Force intensified reconnaissance flights over northern France-always approaching and retiring, it was noticed, by way of Belgium...
...responsible? Easy it is for Monday morning quarterbacks to throw in their happy afterthoughts, their "should-have done's." Perhaps the Allis "should have" decided earlier to bolster the Finn forces, but the gamble was a dangerous one. Gallipoli taught Mr. Churchill the costs of a troop-landing on unknown coasts. Britain could ill violate Scandinavian neutrality while posing as the enemy of international banditry. And an Allied expedition of at best 80,000 slodiers would hardly have withstood a Russo-German onslaught. As for Sweden, her unwillingness to serve as Lebensraum for frustrated World War II is certainly understandable...
Taking his spoils to Polotovsk, Budenny issued a call which became a watchword in Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" As leader of a guerrilla troop, for a while he fought everybody who came his way. Living in forests, his horsemen emerged at night to fall upon Denikin's men or upon freebooters like themselves. By August 1919, Denikin had conquered the Ukraine and was only 200 miles from Moscow. Trotsky did not even know that Budenny existed, but it was Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor...
...under arms in the Near East. London admitted that Great Britain has 500,000 men there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended...
...Little Springs and Bogue Chitto, something more was in the air than a January breeze. Hard-eyed white men got out their guns, went hunting in the swamps along the Homochitto River. Mistuh P. A. Cooper and his bloodhounds arrived from Brandon. Major T. B. Birdsong brought a troop of National Guardsmen. A hunt was on for two black bucks who supposedly had killed a white constable. A cold, scared Negro whose feet were cased in gunnysacks showed himself to a posse, got peppered with birdshot, vanished into the swamps. Over at Prentiss in Jefferson Davis County, National Guardsmen shepherded...