Word: blitzkrieg
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...German air force continued to smash at France tonight even as Adolf Hitler counted the booty taken in the first section of the Nazi blitzkrieg campaign...
Premier & Defense Minister Paul Reynaud last week told the French Senate and the world that an intellectual revolution had been wrought in the French High Command by Germany's super-Blitzkrieg. The leader of that revolution, tight-mouthed little Maxime Weygand, the new Allied Generalissimo, shot aloft in an airplane from Paris to inspect the churning inferno in Picardy and Flanders out of which he was supposed to bring order, safety, victory...
Worse still for Weygand, it appeared that the success of the German Blitzkrieg was the result of a major military invention. There have been such inventions before (e.g., the Macedonian phalanx, the Roman Legion with its checkerboard maniple), and usually they have given their inventors military mastery for generations. Not merely tanks, not merely bombers, not merely greater concentrations of troops and materiel but a new military technique of using all these things together was the secret of German success...
...hour for putting British liberties temporarily in pawn as a means of strengthening the kingdom's effort to snatch victory from the jaws of Blitzkrieg struck in the House of Commons last week. For reasons of high politics Winston Churchill was not there. This greatest of Conservative orators knows when it is more fitting to let others speak. An airplane had hustled the Prime Minister to France for a meeting of the Allied Supreme War Council...
Neutral correspondents, going from Berlin to see what Holland looked like after the Blitzkrieg, doubted Nazi claims that their war had taken but 300 Dutch civilian lives. In Rotterdam alone, whose marshy base allowed few underground shelters, uncounted thousands were crushed under heaps of bricks and stones. A deadly air bombing, ordered by the Germans when a Dutch commander withheld his surrender a few minutes beyond the ultimatum hour, smashed a square mile of commercial Rotterdam-according to the story in seven-and-a-half minutes. The Stadhuis (Town Hall), the new Beurs (Stock Exchange), the Post Office, the biggest...