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...tactics was as angry as it was revealing. Big bombers and dive bombers stopped flying over Britain almost entirely. In their place went fast light bombers and fighting planes fitted up with racks for a few medium bombs. These droned over high, in small but incessant waves. They made air-raid alarms last longer than ever, interrupting civilian life and preying upon morale more persistently than ever. Bombs were dropped more indiscriminately than ever, yet sometimes with more wickedly calculated aim. For every now & then a lone pilot would cut his motor, glide daringly down and plant his load...
From neutral nations reports were even stronger. Vichy ruefully declared that several French ports were completely demolished. Letters from Finland reported that as early as August "Essen and Duisburg were suffering badly from the frequency of air-raid alarms," described the razing of whole blocks in Hamburg...
...Pets. Characteristically Britons in the pious shires agitated themselves over whether it was their duty when at prayer "to pray also for the Germans" as enjoined by the Archbishop of York. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals revealed that, because pets are barred from air-raid shelters, great numbers of Britons are deliberately risking their lives by refusing to leave their pets. Only solution, according to the R. S. P. C. A., was to build air-raid shelters for pets. A 36-dog shelter was begun in Kensington Gardens...
Italians retaliated by bombing British defenses in the Sudan, flew over Cairo for the nuisance value of air-raid alarms. Bombs splattered on Buna, south of Moyale in Kenya. From the Dodecanese Islands they bombed Haifa and Tel Aviv in Palestine. The debacle of Dakar did not help the British cause in the Near East. Nightly the Italian short-wave station at Bari urged the Moslem world and particularly Egyptians to "throw off the yoke" of British Imperialism...
Carl J. Hambro is President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament). At one o'clock in the morning of April 9, his wife woke him up. There was an air-raid alarm. The Nazis had come. President Hambro (now in the U. S.) writes a simple, straightforward, courageous account of the fight of a small neutral (Norway had no standing army) for survival, of heroic defense by civilian reservists against tanks, of the Norwegian air force (115 planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from...