The "secret weapon" with which the German Army was last week out-blasting, outmaneuvering, outdistancing, outflanking and out-fighting the Allies in Flanders and Picardy was a secret only rhetorically. It was no secret to any competent soldier on earth, and had not been since the fall of Poland, that the German nation, sustained by 20 years' hatred for their conquerors and hardened by 20 years in the economic wringer, had by self-denial and deadly concentration built the world's most magnificent military machine in six short years under fanatical Adolf Hitler. For it...
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