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...part of German strategy or character to lose momentum. As the mass bombing of France began this week, it was recognized as execution of the Douhet theory's most frightful phase: to cripple an enemy's factories, transportation, communication, and to demoralize his rear-area population, before smashing his army at the front. That smash, when it came to France, was expected at five points along the Somme-Aisne line, and through the Swiss corner, and almost certainly in combination with harrying action by a new belligerent Italy (see below...
...German air force continued to smash at France tonight even as Adolf Hitler counted the booty taken in the first section of the Nazi blitzkrieg campaign...
...potent Nazi weapon comes in cans: propaganda films for the motion-picture screens of South America. So far the Nazis have had no smash hits in their movie Kampf. They have limited their efforts mainly to trying to keep from impressionable Latin Americans such pictures as anti-German Nurse Edith Cavell, antimilitarist All Quiet on the Western Front. Last week the German defense changed to offense. From Buenos Aires came reports that Agfa Argentina* had taken over the Argentine S. I. D. E. company, was leasing new studios, preparing to produce and distribute films in Latin America...
...many a U. S. citizen, the screaming headlines of the German smash through Belgium and down into France came like an unremitting, seven-day Orson Welles broadcast of an invasion from Mars...
...tanks was several heavy machine guns, plus light cannon. Their armor could resist any fire short of 75 mm. at all ordinary ranges-a fact which nullified the French defense plan of 25 mm. anti-tank guns arranged in depth. Once through, the break-through tanks sought only to smash up all anti-tank weapons in sight, then to plunge ahead as far as possible, never stopping...