Each German attacking force was a complete, self sufficient unit of itself, as American armies always have been. They enabled the famous Nazi "bulge" into northern France to repel Allied attempts to cut them off from the main German armies.
The two traditional tactics of attack, developed by Napoleon, are the flank movement and the "break through." The Allied flanks were protected by the geographical elements, the sea and the Maginot Line. and hence the Germans followed the hind the smoke, said. Congress priate action"
President Roosevelt should take "appro-
Senator Styles Bridges, Republican of New Hampshire, earlier asked President Roosevelt for the resignation of Mr. Lawrence W. Robert from the secretaryship of the Democratic National Committee following the publication of official records showing that Mr. Robert's firm received Navy contracts.
Senator Bridges recommended that the Attorney-General investigate the case.
Mr. Carl Vinson, Democratic Representative of Georgia and chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, placed in the Congressional records statistics of negotiations of the Navy Department contracts.
The statistics showed that the Navy Department awarded Robert and Company eight out of 65 contracts. The eight contracts cost US$26,859,- 000, of which sum the fees of the firm's architects totalled US$931,000—
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French defence forces. highly departmentalized, were not sufficiently flexible to swing anti-tank units into position against local tank attacks, and a general demoralization followed, the Army study disclosed.
The German foot infantry, by far the largest portion of the German Aimy, was everywhere trained to follow up tank advances, and occupy strategic terrain. The famous Belgian fort of Eben Emael, fall of which led to the Allied route in Belgium, was taken by infantry in the timeworn pattern of mass charge and establishment of German artillery below the guns of the fort, according to the Army study. It was finally taken in hand-to-hand fghting—United Press.
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