Word: blitzkrieg
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Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg conquest of the Lowlands and France began before dawn May 10. Within 24 hours it pierced the strongly fortified Belgian defense line at Eben Emael, north of Liege. Crashing through the Belgian Ardennes, it encountered and crushed treacherous or woefully incompetent French Ninth Army under General Corap at Sedan on the Meuse...
...cheek-puffing and chest-swelling, his bellicose roars of Roman conquest from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia (TIME, June 17), Dictator Benito Mussolini last week did not hurl his Italian war machine into World War II in German Blitzkrieg style. He had entered the war not to fight so much as to share a victory. Waiting for that time, he naturally edged into action cautiously. He laid some mines, dropped a few bombs, fired a few torpedoes, started a few tanks rolling in the remote Somalilands (see above). His people were not spoiling for a fight and he appeared...
...that volunteer recruiting is inadequate. Recruiting districts throughout the U. S. are behind in their quotas, will have to drive hard to up the Army from 242,000 to 280,000 by next Sept. i. How big an army may be needed to face down the threats of Blitzkrieg no one last week calculated publicly. Some idea of possible requirements could be got from the fact that, if the U. S. ever has 50,000 warplanes in actual service, it will have to have around 75,000 pilots and 750,000 men on the ground (at the rule of thumb...
...Allies had learned things about Blitzkrieg and its accessories. It was reported, for example, that the turrets of the 70-ton German break-through tanks (which Germany got by her seizure of the Skoda munitions works in Czechoslovakia) are their vulnerable spot. The quality of German aircraft, the ability of German pilots (many of whom are sent up with minimum flight instruments, obliged to follow-their-leader) were not believed up to Allied par. Allies saw that inferior, half-trained troops were mixed in with the elite. For their own civilian Army ranks they now had a leavening of veterans...
...verbal preparedness blitzkrieg, the New York Times last Friday urged immediate adoption of "compulsory universal military training for America" because the "logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Their bombshell was followed over the week-end by speeches and resolutions of interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory...