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...Baltic will be seen in World War II. Though the German Navy is this time far weaker (42 ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march against Berlin, even if a shallow-draft armada should push through. Besides submarines, the Gate-crashers would now have to cope with large minefields at the outlet of the three narrow channels to the Baltic, as well as bombing planes...
...Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring." Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business fortnight ago when war broke out: whole industries burst into flower, steel, machine tools (see p. 59), aircraft (see p. 63), etc. Many a smaller business feels the push of the season in the same way. Typical of many such were the new conditions last week faced by Marion Steam Shovel Co., No. 2 U. S. maker of shovels (No. 1: Bucyrus-Erie), 1938 net sales...
Strategy of General Gamelin's push in the Saar was to draw German troops from the Eastern Theatre to meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans...
Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...peace. . . . It is this ideal that is at the basis of France's and Turkey's policy. . . ." Giving Mr. Erkin scarcely time to get settled in Paris, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet went to work on him to arrange how and when the Allies might use the Dardanelles in a push to support Poland through her southeast postern...