Word: blitzkrieging
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Weeks of planning had gone into last weeks action. Result: a legislative Blitzkrieg. The President met with Congressional leaders of both parties repeatedly last week, ironing out details. Then he drifted a message...
...Blitzkrieg is godless war; God does not necessarily aid the side with the biggest battalions. Materiel and strategy count for much. The Germans could honestly say last week that they had long had air superiority and now for the first time clearly had tank superiority...
Since the war's beginning no week has passed without scarehead rumors and wishful guesses as to the state of the world's oil supply. "Experts" proved alternately that Germany's oil reserves could not support a month of Blitzkrieg, that her synthetic production could keep her going indefinitely...
...Army has exploded the myth of German invincibility and shattered the illusion of the Blitzkrieg. The mad Fascist beast is bleeding profusely...
...Arnold's war will be no Blitzkrieg. Molasses-slow is the Judiciary Committee, headed by foxy old Hatton Sumners of Texas (who has the Confucian viewpoint that none-of-this-will-matter-in-a-thousand-years), and composed of 25 other lawyers, who know all the ins-&-outs of legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet...