-YW7HILM árries veer uncertainly across the' Map of 1941, it is sobering to turn to the inspection of other armies moving ácrógs the map of other years. For we knew now precisely where started from and who led them and how far they got, writes ip Guedalla, the English Historian, to the New York "Times."
causes of their ebb and flow are neatly tabulated in textbooks. mur- Yet; while they were in motion, their impetus ahd impact were one Lob a "f just as incalculable to their contemporaries, as ufisolved a riddle, as today's news.
"When Napoleon jerked himself back onto the throne of France déjei te God Güe March day in 1815 and headed north a few weeks later for ft easy Anschluss with the Belgians, nobody in London or along thie dusty hedgerows before Waterloo had any notion they were living through the Hundred Days and that there were only twelve more days to go; for, "as eud ancestors saw it first," the greatest living British rian has written, "they did not know whether Mnity st) the Hundred Days, as we now call ther, would not stretch out ton that & mum grandmother his EN for a hundred years."
But we know all about them now. The its are all plain to view in the Ming light of history. We can Tu the causes of that inevitable allied victory won by composite and not wholly satisfactory Q Over an incomparable army and predominant gun power. wielded by the greatest soldier of his day. It unlikely at the time; it looks still. But the unanswerable flict remains that it happened.
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from causes which com-leisure. We cani see that there was it; We can analyze them now 06 it would me of e missed that June; but in —at those Austrians, whom he could always beat. (It is one of Germany's misfortunes that the Austrians and Italians are row there for some one èlse to beat), The Anstriens were waiting in Bavaria. But Napoleon messed north of them and moved 200000 men in sixteen days into the angle of the Rhine and then wheeled south on a front of 120 miles. eliminated Mack at Ulm and rode into Vienna. Forty-three days after Ulm ihe Austrians and the Russians were destroyed at Austerlitz.
Next year the Prussian Army was destroyed at Jena. The Emperor rode into Berlin; in a campaign of had reduced the from European mo-[anarchy to a Baltic principality. That was the tempo of the Napoleonic fonduest in am age when armies fnoved no faster than a marching foot-soldier, ang human fancy could mot grasp anything mote rapid thab a man' on horseback. For the Emperor bad nothing to learn from the blitzkrieg, so far as his pace was concerned. It was temporarily slowed up by the winter campaign at the gates of Russia. and even Fried-land scarcely served to efface the memory of Eylau. congratulated on /Desp! te Y nights out during ait: no reason 16 cue competent say."
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Intelligente is normally employed in arguing from the known to the unknown. What is that we wish to know? It would be satisfactory just now to secure a reasoned forecast of the immediate and ultimate prospects of Adolf Hitler. Well. we know what became of Attila. But examination of the course parian invasions bêl table check may well be less instructive than a survey of the victorious aggression of Napoleonic France operating over the fields and cities of a more developed Europe. The parable is less remote. The time is nearer (o our own and the conditions of the problem more strictly comparable to those in which the Hddle of today presents itself for our solution.
For it is not so long (as history counts time) since another conqueror pitched his armies up and down the map in Bold defiance of political geography, improved upon the art of war as practised by less enterprise ing adversaries. and sent lines of bayonets marching through the silent streets of subject capitals, We have seen something of the kind in the uni Sequence of Warsaw, Oslo. Copenhagen. Amsterdam. Brussels and Paris. But an older Europe saw a similar event unroll itself down a long ávenue that ran through even greater cities. For Rome. Vienna, Berlin, Madrid and Moscow is a roll flit has à more impressive ring.
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