Word: blitzkriegers
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...week wore on, the antipipeline campaign assumed the proportions of a first-class business Blitzkrieg. It was well-timed: the long-delayed Senate investigation of foreign oil commitments and PRC is about to get under way. Considering the newly independent tone of the Congress. Harold Ickes' hasty plans for committing the U.S. to the first step toward "the maintenance of collective security in the postwar world" may yet be outflanked...
...since the Blitzkrieg of 1939 had the harried rulers of Poland stood at such a crossroads. Never before in their long resistance to Moscow's pressure for acceptance of the Curzon Line and revamping of their Cabinet had they been publicly rebuked by their British hosts. To Foreign Secretary Eden's Whitehall office went Polish Minister Tadeusz Romer to present the exiled Cabinet's view. Said the semiofficial Dziennik Polski...
These men and these weapons thrice beat Manstein: at Stalingrad, Kursk, Zhitomir. But, thrice beaten, he still failed to understand the lesson. For understanding meant loss of hope and faith: the Slav commoner had negated the Junkers' wondrous Blitzkrieg...
...Ukraine, the action was old-time Blitzkrieg in reverse, with the Red Army's performance as spectacular as anything the Wehrmacht has yet shown. Thus, Zhitomir fell to a cavalry corps of three divisions under Lieut. General Victor Baranov (who, for the feat, received the coveted Order of Suvorov, First Class) and a tank army under Lieut. General Pavel Rybalko, who won fame in last winter's campaign. So fast were these generals moving (120 miles in nine days) that happy Moscow gave their chief, General Nikolai Vatutin, a fond nickname: Molnya -Lightning...
...Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...