Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, after only eleven days of fighting, it was a grave question whether Poland was not already crushed. Perhaps Marshal Smigly-Rydz was to blame, for having his generals resist too long; perhaps the speed and power of the German advance surpassed even German calculations; perhaps the weather made the difference, staying dry and leaving the roads passable for motorized advance; perhaps the German air-power exceeded all expectations, breaking Poland's wings before they left the ground, smashing defensive positions before they could be organized. Certainly all these factors combined to make half Poland a shambles...
Meanwhile intelligence maps on both sides were being marked and flagged with the information brought home by far-ranging reconnaissance. It has been a long time since French military planes flew over Germany, or German over France, and there were many changes to be photographed, sketched or observed before both sides were ready to begin real firing...
...German munitions factory last week walked Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, most popular (after Hitler) and most portly of Nazis. On the eighth day of Germany's advance into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow of long-barreled artillery, to Germans waiting at the radio all over the Reich, to listeners in countries at war with Germany or neutral, Adolf Hitler's second in command came bearing tidings of victory, offers of peace, warnings of struggle, and bad news...
...along with all this there was: "You must believe me if I tell you that the thesis of a long war weakening a nation is not true. With every year we will grow stronger...
...molding public opinion. For many a post-War year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...