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Last week's situation was fraught with distractions to worry a commander on an unparalleled scale. In the beginning German parachute troops poured down, sometimes disguised as French peasants, even as women, to put the torch to villages in the Allies' rear areas. German motorcycle troops with armored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Desperation | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Spaniards and Finns learned how to repel light tanks extemporaneously with gasoline bottles. The French and British learned last week that the only sure way to stop Germany's durable tank corps of today is by massed field-gun fire at point-blank range. Batteries of the famed French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tanks in Battle | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

The night before, gangs of young Fa-scisti had roamed the streets plastering walls with posters that announced: COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES, INCONTESTABLE PROOF OF FRANCO-BRITISH DEFEAT. In front of the Regina Carlton Hotel in the Via Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Fascists & Facts | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

When 60 police had arrived the mob was driven back to the Square, and after milling around for a quarter of an hour in front of the First Church of Cambridge and the University Theatre, the rioters gradually dispersed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Riot Squad Stems Large Crimson Tide in Spring Putsch | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

For 71 years the No. 2 U. S. milling company (No. 1: Minneapolis' twice-as-big General Mills) has ground out Pillsbury's Best, other flour products, under the active management of Pillsburys. Recent resignation of Treasurer Alfred Fiske Pillsbury (70) left the family without an officer in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Pillsbury's Best | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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