Word: blitzkrieg
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Britain's harassing, guerrilla tactics along the Libyan border with light tanks and armored trucks stung the Italians, just after Balbo's death, into attempting a Blitzkrieg drive with a mechanized column of more than 1,000 men on the fortified British coastal base of Sollum, 75 miles east of Tobruch. The British broke up this effort with a flanking attack, and the survivors took refuge in the deserted adobe Fort Capuzzo. There they still were after a thirsty week, sucking stones to eke out their water supply, which the British cut off by removing many sections...
...were targets attacked even in foul weather.* At all costs Britain must interrupt Germany's preparations, play for time. The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer. For even if she stood off Blitzkrieg, Britain already faced Blockade. With customary exaggeration, the German High Command last week claimed that, since obtaining Channel and Atlantic bases, their inroads by U-boat, speed boat and aircraft on British shipping now rose toward the high rates achieved during World War I-more than 100,000 tons...
...live in the British Isles is likely to be tough during the weeks to come for that tall, scholarly Scottish banker, Viceroy and Governor General the Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun and Baron Hope. Last week the House of Commons officially gave up hope that during a Nazi Blitzkrieg the India Office in London could continue to run India by cable and radio remote control. Only thing to do was to make the Viceroy in effect not only Roi but also Dictator over 350,000,000 people. This the House of Commons...
...town of St. Malo last week, amiably tested their schoolboy French on the natives. The natives' terror of the German scourge was beginning to give way to frank curiosity; after all, hadn't this been a leave area for the big blond Americans in the last war? Blitzkrieg-weary, everybody relaxed expansively in the warmth of a summer...
...here. We may even in our human frailty or under controlled forces do that which deviates from the main stream of the ideal-but right or wrong, in victory or in defeat, in self-fulfillment or in frustration, we will not dissolve our partnership with God. He wages no Blitzkrieg against the forces of destruction and evil, but acts inexorably like the orderly succession of the hours, and brings doom upon the haughty pretenders to divine prerogatives. . . . Israel dare not die-because humanity needs its message...