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...tricks opened by the Germans in the Low Countries, most spectacular eye-opener to complacent military men was the employment of parachute troops and air infantry. Pooh-poohed by all the big powers except Russia, Germany's flying infantrymen put on their most impressive show in capturing the Rotterdam airport, then deep inside the Dutch lines. Thoroughly schooled in the lay of the land around the field, a battalion of crack parachuters under a Lieut. Schulz bailed out from 300 feet, picked up weapons dropped with them and went to work on Dutch machine-gun nests. Next came...
...banks and pubs and offices; lovely old St. Michael's cathedral-all fell under the most concentrated rain of destruction yet loosed from the skies by mankind. What the Nazis had done to tiny Guernica in the Spanish war, to Warsaw by degrees and to a section of Rotterdam in one short blast, the Germans now did to Coventry. In the morning, what had been a thriving city was a smoldering pile of rubble where dazed, stunned survivors wandered aimlessly, and rescue parties from other cities scrabbled in the ruins to dig out hundreds buried dead and alive...
...goddess. In the rational, optimistic centuries men were more concerned with plans than with chance, with just deserts than with lucky breaks. As darkness gathers again, interest in Fortune revives. This week, in The Tide of Fortune, Biographer Stefan Zweig (Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Erasmus of Rotterdam, etc.) examines twelve varied instances of unpredictable turns of chance. The book is reminiscent of the late William Bolitho's grandly oblique sketches of adventurers, Twelve Against the Gods. Typical of Zweig's jack pots, lucky & unlucky...
...difference between Rotterdam on May 14, and all large British cities last week was that the latter were heavily ringed with well-manned, well-munitioned anti-aircraft batteries. On the other hand, Germany was prepared to send bombers in flights of 540 instead of 54, if needed, to destroy London, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, etc., simultaneously, at whatever expenditure of her own lives might be necessary to annihilate British lives. Prospects were that the 10,000 or 15.000 attackers Germany was prepared to send and spend might well knock out Britain's 7,000 (at most, all types...
While Sir Alan prepared to spear German sky wolves, the R. A. F. last week continued its lambasting of their lairs across the Channel. British pilots stalked Germans home to spot their fields for future visits by British bombers. Wherever they saw barges-at Rotterdam, Boulogne, in the River Lys at Armentieres-they poured down bombs. They blasted out a section of the important Dortmund-Ems Canal, to which much traffic has been diverted since the railroad was wrecked...