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...French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur and westward towards Louvain...
...Schlieffen Plan, master design of Germany's attack in 1914, called for the German Armies swinging like a scythe pivoted from a point near Metz, to sweep in a wide circle through Belgium far to the westward around Paris and, still sweeping around, finally pin the French Armies against the Rhine and the Alps. Last week, they watched the execution of another plan, another swing, but a swing in the opposite direction. Pivoting at Antwerp, the scythe swept westward. Its point at Sedan swept onward to Rethel, Laon, St. Quentin. For a time it threatened to swing far enough...
Their plan was, with the Norse troops working on lower levels, to complete a ring around Narvik, then press westward until they drove the Nazis down from the heights to the fjord, where the warships could polish them...
...Westward Movement," produced by the Radio Workshop...
...keeping war away from this hemisphere. I pray God that we shall not have to do more than that; but should it be necessary, I am convinced that we would be wholly successful." When Mr. Roosevelt spoke (by radio), war in Scandinavia was seven days old, and its westward impact was heavy upon him. During the first fogged days of battle (see p. 19), he and his military advisers wondered whether their profound dependence on the British fleet for protection in the Atlantic was misplaced. British successes later eased that fear, but a tremor remained. For the Allies, Washington speeded...