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...footing, clapped a straw hat on his head with one hand and moved up the ramp. At the top he turned and waved his hat in response to another little clatter of handclaps. Thus the President set off last week on his second tour of the Eastern seacoast. In a week in which the long-threatened Battle of Britain had reached a new pitch (see p. 21), he was going to look at the budding evidences of budding U. S. Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On the Job | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

From the standpoint of actual invasion as opposed to air bombardment the area offers a somewhat different picture. The Irish seacoast is a long way round for any attack from the Continent by a power which does not have command of the sea. The eastern coast is far more vulnerable but still not easy to attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Britain's Vulnerable Midlands | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...morning when Weygand flew over he could see the Germans with motorized divisions on their flanks sweeping westward in a corridor between the isolated Allied Armies and Paris. German tank units were already raising havoc with Allied communications along the seacoast. Behind them German infantry and artillery divisions dropped off to strengthen the sides of the corridor. Already Reichenau (who was at the centre in Poland and performed the final closing of the bloody envelopment of Kutno) was driving on Lille. Küchler (who commanded the German left in the Polish massacre) was pressing through Ghent...

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

...hope of winning in a concentrated battle between capital ships. His plan was so far as possible to avoid battle at sea, to divide his fleet into a number of small squadrons and scatter them as protection for numerous parties at strategic points along 1,200 miles of Norwegian seacoast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...published by an Army colonel and a Stockholm professor of history: "Fools are those believing a free Sweden may exist as the neighbor of a Finland trampled down by Bolshevism. No doubt exists that Russia is aiming farther than the suppression of Finland. . . ." A Russia with an Atlantic seacoast, and thus a potential sea power, is something for almost everybody to think about-including Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Sweden Failed | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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