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...result of the Spanish War she has thousands of seasoned officers and men. Besides the Piedmontese and Sardinians, her 50,000 Alpini are first-class, easily on a par with their cousins among the French and Bavarian crags. More spotty are the Arditi divisions, supposed to be shock troops picked for bravery from the general run of infantry. Of 1,500,000 soldiers Italy had under arms last week, about 700,000 were believed to be on the "Littorio Line" from the Riviera to Switzerland, 300,000 farther east (or going up to Germany) under Crown Prince Umberto...
...armament producers like Baldwin Locomotive and American Car & Foundry. But traders were still careful about overcommitting themselves for fear of what might happen if France collapsed. First day this week they were reassured. France surrendered, the market reacted by sliding off three and one-half points on the first shock. Then it rallied right back to close off only about...
...wrote several years ago, "is strong in numbers but it has the character of defensive armies, slowness and rigidity. I may add"-and this proved tragically true last week-"that it has not the technical means for rapid and decisive counter-attack." He urgently demanded "an Army of shock troops with lightning-like speed and formidable power in artillery . . . modern tanks which will go 40 kilometres an hour in flat country." But those defenders of the realm, Blum, Daladier, Gamelin, would not listen...
Motorized Infantry, shock troops in armored trucks attached to the Attack Army, machine-gunners on armored motorcycles, followed the assault tanks. Behind them followed motorized field artillery. The job of these forces was to widen and hold the breach made, turn it over to ordinary infantry brought up behind. Maximum speed of the whole armored column was that of the break-through tanks: 18 m.p.h. But with each column, for special demolition duty and advance work, went 170-h.p. Diesel-powered medium tanks capable of 85 m.p.h. on roads, 50 m.p.h. across country on their caterpillar tracks. And the Germans...
Last week Max had a shock. Believing that his entry into the Cabinet would provoke storms of protest from his countless enemies, he was touched when Britons responded to his appointment with loud applause. Even Baron Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...