Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the whole broad earth, as the meaning of the swift drive through Poland became clearer, the nations seemed to be withdrawing into themselves like coiling springs wound ever more tightly. With its daily and hourly revelations of deficiencies, allegiances, loyalties, its drastic breaks with the past, with traditions and plans, with cherished projects, World War II assumed a magnitude at its beginning that World War I did not assume until its end. But it was a different kind of war-a war of diplomatic assaults and economic raids, in which the troops of aggressive nations only moved upon nations...
...this was no war of occupation, but a war of quick penetration and obliteration-Blitzkrieg, lightning war. Even with no opposition, armies had never moved so fast before. Theorists had always said that only infantry could take and hold positions. But these armies had not waited for the infantry. Swift columns of tanks and armored trucks had plunged through Poland while bombs raining from the sky heralded their coming. They had sawed off communications, destroyed stores, scattered civilians, spread terror. Working sometimes 30 miles ahead of infantry and artillery, they had broken down the Polish defenses before they had time...
...swift punishment for the killing was directed by General George Argeshanu, Commander of the Bucharest Army Corps and former War Minister, who was named premier to replace the slain Calinescu by King Carol II and the Crown Council...
...only striking photographs and detailed accounts of the capture of cities demonstrated Dr. Goebbels' swift work...
...test of Britain's Government was not its claim to the loyalty of its people, which few doubted, but the ability of its venerable institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men was not the sincerity of their aims, which few besides Hitler questioned, but their ability to act promptly, strike hard if necessary, change their pace as Hitler changed...