Word: blitzkrieging
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...said. Yet he shrewdly used public opinion, most notably by editing the famous Ems telegram to make it appear that the Kaiser had inexcusably affronted the French ambassador. Result: France felt compelled to declare war, and Germany conquered Alsace-Lorraine. While his generals were mounting history's first blitzkrieg, the Chancellor condemned their "criminal" sacrifice of manpower. He called their tactics "all fists and no head" and remarked that Prussia's only worthwhile militarists had been trained abroad...
...victory as Marshal Foch's chief of staff reading the surrender terms to German generals at Compiegne in 1918, then acceded to his nation's most bitter defeat in June 1940, when as the 73-year-old commander of Allied troops in France, he found the Nazi blitzkrieg so overwhelming that he recommended capitulation before the entire country was overrun; of complications following a broken hip; in Paris. Over the years most Frenchmen have forgiven his lack of fighting spirit, putting it down to age and a lifetime spent thinking in terms of trench warfare. But not Charles...
Ellington and his 15-piece orchestra began a blitzkrieg visit to California last week. After five days' residence at Disneyland and another few days of concerts around the state, the boys will strike out for a three-week tour of Japan-their first overseas venture since they came home from a six-week European tour in March. In the past 100 days, the Duke has given 25 concerts, made an LP, and taped four television shows, all while working on a new musical called Sugar City that is scheduled for Broadway this fall...
...fighting for the British against the Vichy French in Syria. In the Palestine war of 1948-49, Colonel Dayan's motorized Israeli units captured Lydda and Ramie, cleared the Negev desert. In 1953 Dayan became chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, plotted the brilliant blitzkrieg in which Israel's army overran the Sinai peninsula and chewed up a fourth of Egypt's army in six days. Last week, a sinewy 42, Major General Moshe Dayan resigned as chief of staff, announced he would enter Jerusalem's Hebrew University to make up the schooling...
...sworn to do ... We should all not the small size of the Israeli state. Within hours, far shorter time than it would take a U.N. or U.S. force to be fighting ... Israel would no longer remain on the map. Without weapons for defense she could not face the blitzkrieg of Soviet war machines...