Word: blitzkrieg
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Sweden can probably thank her military strength for still being at peace last week. But for it, Hitler would probably have included Sweden in his Blitzkrieg on Denmark and Norway. Herr Hitler has a weakness for a pushover, and if he had found Norway just a little bit easier he would have had Sweden locked in her room. But another reason for her still unviolated borders may be Sweden's weakness, and until last week this weakness was scarcely suspected outside of Sweden. Adolf Hitler may believe that he can get Sweden's iron and her arsenal, immobilize...
Then came the Polish Blitzkrieg, and Osservatore Romano's, circulation rocketed to 130,000 copies daily. Reason: it was the only newspaper in Rome to carry full, and reasonably impartial, dispatches from the front...
...Swedes last week took ingenious precaution against this fundamental Blitzkrieg move by parking thousands of taxicabs and other automobiles all over their main airfields...
...else Blitzkrieg would affect U. S. business no man could say. Scandinavian trade is a complicated network which taps world ports from the Thames to the Weddell Sea, from Hammerfest to Antarctica. The tireless tramps of Norway, No. 4 world seafarer, carry the bulk of Cuban sugar shipments to the U. S., play a bigger part in Philippines-U. S. traffic than the ships of any nation. South America, with an export balance of $20-25,000,000 annually to Scandinavia, has often used Scandinavian proceeds to buy U. S. goods. Great Britain got 50% of her bacon and eggs...
...business was as bewildered by the turn of events as any Norwegian soldier. One thing was certain: the U. S. had lost an export market. And none pulled out of it faster than Moore-McCormack Lines, No. 1 U. S.-to-Scandinavia ship-operator. Day of Blitzkrieg's beginning, Moore-McCormack got busy on the radio. To Mormacstar and Mormactide, far out in the Atlantic, Scandinavia-bound, went orders to [ turn about, keep steerage way with their bows pointed west, pending further orders. Few hours later the orders went out: head for home. Later, to the freighters Mormacsea...