Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...main reaction of the Allied peoples-and their friends-to the withdrawal of Allied troops from lower Norway last week (see p. 25). Prime Minister Chamberlain's first incomplete "explanation" in the House of Commons (see p. 32) contained no restorative stronger than patience to parry the shock. At very least, the Allies had grossly, amateurishly muffed a priceless chance to gain by Adolf Hitler's expansion of the war. And even more gravely psychological than military were the implications of the retreat from Åndalsnes and Namsos. It was possible that the lessons the Allies learned...
...actually about 50 miles in one day, which is excellent for tanks and lorries moving through mountain country if the retreating defenders are blowing out bridges, touching off landslides. When the Österdal spearhead reached Röros it consisted only of five armored cars, 15 trucks, carrying 150 shock troops, 20 motorcycles with two men each. But they were escorted by warplanes overhead, which scattered the handfuls of Norse troops guarding the way, panicked the populace. The Nazis captured police chiefs and ministers, held them as hostages to get gasoline. They promised total bombing to the villagers if there...
...order stout resistance. A band of 135 Finnish war veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns as well as Norwegians-stood a desperate six-hour siege. They manned even an old muzzle-loading cannon, which recoiled 18 feet and had to be hauled back into place after every shot. Nazi shock troopers finally blasted them out with mortars and flame...
Although the Times could still be whimsical about it, Major Vidkun Quisling's treachery in hamstringing Norse defenses the week before gave Europe a first-rate shock. "QUISLINGS EVERYWHERE," headlined the London Times, while all over the Continent governments went hunting for those malcontents in their midst who might open the gates to the enemy...
...According to the best local information, Adolf Hitler has 36 divisions massed in this section of the front, including shock troops and mechanized units. . . . The present arrangement of his forces seems to indicate that he planned a sort of crack-the-whip movement, pivoting on the Luxembourg corner and sweeping through Holland and Belgium...