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Nevertheless, Italian concentrations were reported on the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia. If he dared push into the French Riviera, Mussolini was in danger of being disastrously squeezed...
...could not recover the Channel ports, he would be left, after his army in Flanders was annihilated, to fight the rest of the war from a front on the lower Somme-a far worse position than that of France in World War I. Could he in some way push the Germans back to the Belgian border's Little Maginot Line, he might, even if he could not save the isolated Army, raise the odds on an ultimate Allied victory from last week's appalling...
...sweep was not attributable to new instruments, but to superb coordination and handling of improved old ones. All this winter the Germans were reported to have gone through the most exhaustive rehearsals in central Poland, as well as on the old Czech Maginot Line, to prepare for the Western push. Last week in France it was still that old instrument, the infantry, that was doing most of the work...
...they heard at German headquarters that to counter this success Allied Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin rushed reserves to Namur from Sedan and Montmédy they doubtless shook hands with one another in elation. Soon their map recorded another push. In the rough and wooded Ardennes, German spearheads crushed the Belgian Chasseurs and drove straight at the Maginot Extension below Sedan. They made a dent, the dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power...
Attack Army's task was to push on & on never to retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...