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Most Londoners knew that the Things were worse on nerves than the blitz at its worst. It was not so much that the Things killed, maimed, destroyed, disrupted. As they had before, they did all that in one awful peak of 14 consecutive hours one day last week. London could take all that again...
Germ of the Blitz. Unlike irregular political theory, unorthodox military thinking in Russia has never been penalized. In the 1930s Soviet air-war theory was characterized by bold ideas. It was a Russian, Amiragov, who was among the first to state that a modern war must start with a coordinated assault by tanks and aircraft. The Germans were at work on this nucleus of the Blitzkrieg idea, but the rest of Europe paid little attention. The Russians were the first to experiment on a large scale with mass dropping of parachute troops, and among the first with gliderborne assault forces...
Down Gorky Street. Almost three years behind blitz schedule, the Wehrmacht at last saw Moscow. Some 57,000 German prisoners from the Polish campaign shuffled through the Russian capital on their way to internment. They were shabby, unshaven, a few of them still defiant. But most looked like beaten...
...wonder insecticide (TIME, June 12), was last week credited with the most crushing blitz of its career...
Land Dilemma. In the midst of the blitz, Winston Churchill had heartened Britons with the promise that their ruined cities would rise "beautiful, resplendent, Phoenix-like from the ashes of the dead." Since then, the cities and towns had been busy turning hopes into blueprints. Before the House was the Government's proposal for translating the blueprints and Churchill's promises into buildings...