Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks it grew stronger, until it overshadowed the tangible world of money and man, fleets and maps; hourly its influence spread, reaching into the minds of Generals and Premiers. Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued, for its brief span it ran the Chancelleries, changed the plans, wrote the communiques. It was the speed of Germany's advance through Poland-not the fact of German victory, but the pace of German arms...
...workout for the giant Red Army, the invasion of Poland was only a brief sprint. For its significance-the partitioning of collapsed Poland-observers read the political dispatches from Moscow and Berlin...
Even more disturbing than the lack of censors was the virtual absence of any news whatever from the Allied fronts. Reporters, barred for the present from the scene of war itself (though a limited number are expected to go later), were dependent on brief and cryptic official communiques. Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long...
SURVEY AFTER MUNICH-Graham Hut-ton-Little, Brown ($2.50). Brief, fact-filled political and economic surveys of the countries now caught between the Nazi anvil and the Russian hammer & sickle, by a former editor of the London Economist...
Herewith TIME presents, from facts known at the present time, a sort of international white paper,* a chronological record in brief of the diplomatic exchanges that culminated in the white race's second civil war. The record properly goes back to a day six months ago, just after Hitler's troops took possession of Czecho-Slovakia...