Maneuvers

The French Army usually holds its principal annual war games along the German frontier, but last week, while Adolf Hitler was getting ready to play with 1,000,000 men, the French played their own little game with 20,000 men in the Alps. The problem, set by General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who not only attended the maneuvers but handshook every man in two regiments: "The capture of a mountain pass and the exploitation of its capture by a movement into the dominated valley."

In the first phase of the maneuver, the military judges decided that "The Blues" --who could only have been Italian invaders coming from the tongue of territory sticking out at France near Modane --were not able to take the Galibier Pass, which "proved impregnable."

In order to proceed to the second phase of the game, it was then assumed that "The Blues" had succeeded in taking the Galibier "by surprise."

With the dice thus loaded in their favor, "The Blues" irresistibly advanced.

The judges concluded that if one of the passes of the Savoy Alps should ever be taken by an enemy, then they could not be checked in the valley and the defending French Army would have to stop them in positions farther back.

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