Word: blitzkriegers
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...soap the foes of Japan's aggressions, he talked about her "mission in the interest of civilization." He promptly began his campaign to bring Japan into the Axis by purging the Foreign Office and diplomatic corps of men friendly to Great Britain and the U.S., promised a "diplomatic Blitzkrieg" when he took office. The era of "toadying" was over for Japan. As a result of his contradictory utterances down the years, of his diplomatic adventurousness and military caution, the London-Washington Axis heartily mistrusts him; so do many Japanese, and possibly the Berlin-Rome Axis does also...
...angrily agog with suspicion that the obsolete and stubborn 1914 military mentality was still in charge at G.H.Q. and that it had been getting a romantic gilding from the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Military Historian Liddell Hart, whose theories of defensive warfare were blasted by Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactics, broke his recent silence long enough to remark that the British people's hearts of oak were being betrayed by their leaders' oaken heads...
During the Spanish Civil War the Marshal strongly favored the cause of his old war-college student and personal friend, Francisco Franco. During the Nazi Blitzkrieg on France, a Pétain Ministry was favored by the appeasement group in the French Cabinet. Recalled from his Ambassadorship in Madrid, the Marshal headed the Cabinet faction which opposed Winston Churchill's offer of a French-British union...
Arguing that the best defense is an attack, Edmond Taylor proposed launching "a political super-Blitzkrieg against Hitler." Suggested...
After his advanced guard had been cut off the air, Head Putschster Coles Phinizy '42 announced wittily, "The co-operation in our blitzkrieg shows that there is an alarming amount of fifth colum activities in the United States and we fear that democracy is in peril...