Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the most serious situation of all for the U. S. and it is not beyond the bounds of possibility. If Britain should be conquered in a swift invasion lasting only three or four weeks, its morale might collapse as completely as that of France. In that event Winston Churchill might find himself out, like Paul Reynaud in France, and Churchill's promise never to surrender the fleet might be forgotten as quickly as Reynaud's similar promises...
...force from Cyprus or Malta, he turned (said Sir Andrew) and ran for home, spewing smoke screens to cover his departure. Before the smoke got too thick, Sir Andrew opened up with his biggest guns at extreme range (approximately 20 miles). He thought he obtained a hit before the swift Italian ships got to safety. One of his ships sank the Zeffiro when she ran close to the oncoming British to lay smoke. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the British submarine Parthian found an Italian submarine cruising at the surface, blew it to bits...
...railroads and other communications, at fighting bases and repair shops of R. N. and R. A. F., at troop concentrations, coastal defense works, port facilities. They were widely scattered to give German squadron leaders practice in reaching numerous objectives, so that when mass raiding began it would be swift and accurate. But the first concentrations of attack were aimed at convoys in the Strait of Dover and at east-coast ports, closing of which to all British shipping, naval as well as merchant, was a prerequisite of invasion...
...first year Japan's advances were incredibly swift, at least by the standards of all previous wars. At something like forced-march rate, columns fanned out from Peking and Tientsin to west and south. Shanghai was taken after stubborn resistance (TIME, Aug. 30, 1937). The Chinese Armies fought rear-guard actions up to Nanking, where a ferociously maddened Japanese Army committed one of history's most terrible acts (TIME, Dec.27, 1937). Murder, rape, destruction, looting-a crazy vindictiveness on the part of the Japanese-resulted in some 50,000 civilian deaths...
Last week Dr. de Savitsch, 37, published a swift, pungent account of his adventures (In Search of Complications-Simon & Schuster-$3). Highlights...