Word: blitzkrieg
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...early in his career as a topflight staff officer.* like such contemporary Army "brains" as "Beetle" Smith and Al Gruenther (now Eisenhower's chief of staff), and like George Marshall. Graduating from West Point too late for World War I, Wedemeyer in 1936 was sent to study blitzkrieg tactics at the German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from his old classroom instructor, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, explaining the Nazi breakthrough in France) made...
...first program, "Newsfronts of War-1940," M.O.T. compares the crisis climate of 1939 with today. At intervals, the filmed account of Nazi blitzkrieg and Japanese aggression in China is broken for discussion, by Commentator John Daly and Guest Correspondents David Douglas Duncan and Manfred Gottfried, of the ironies and parallels of contemporary history. An outstanding parallel: world peace, threatened by the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact, is similarly threatened in 1951 by the Soviet-Red China pact...
...Crimson defense was nearly run out of Palmer Stadium by Princeton's first siring backs, who scored 28 points in the first 11 minutes of play, but Lowenstein and associates refused to be overawed and insisted upon staging a minor blitzkrieg of their...
Generals & Sinners. In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner. Asked if he thought war would come soon, he said in clipped, confident tones: "The odds are still seven to five in favor of more appeasement." Two days later, "Hitler's blitzkrieg roared across the Polish frontier...
...TIME subscriber has been reading TIME for nine years-so many of you will probably remember the original Background for War, 1939. This was a series TIME published on the eve of World War II, reviewing history from World War I to the invasion of Poland. Shortly after the blitzkrieg, we collected these articles into a booklet which you can still find in the homes of thousands of TIME readers. They and their friends bought more than four-and-a-half million copies at the newsstands-the greatest response to any single-issue publication that the American News...