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Because Britons have taken quite a pummeling from the Germans on sea and from the air, and because they have given the Germans quite a punching around in the Sylt, Altmark and Spee affairs. Britons are not so prone as the restless French (see p. 20) to regard the war and their Government as passive. Nevertheless, War Secretary Oliver Stanley felt constrained to admonish domestic and foreign spectators who want more gore in World War II. "We intend to fight in our own way and not in their way," he snorted. "How easy it is, from the ringside, after...
...Altmark fracas in Norwegian waters were not enough excitement, added to it last week was the incident of Pajala, a Swedish town of 3,000 six miles from the Finnish border, 100 miles North of the Gulf of Bothnia. One morning seven bombers flew over Pajala, dropping 134 explosive and incendiary bombs. Six buildings were burned, telephone lines were cut, 43 big bomb holes were made in Pajala's streets. Miraculously, no one was killed, only two slightly wounded...
...Object together to such "violations of international law" as the Altmark affair...
...good burghers of Birmingham glow. But before he had finished, Neville Chamberlain had struck pride in the hearts of many another Briton. First of all he praised Britain's sea heroes, the patient men on patrol, riskers in convoy, victors at the River Plate, raiders of the Altmark. Warmly he lauded the Air Force; women who have lost their loves and sons, who fight with knitting needles and save every scrap; eager men who could not wait to be drafted; civil servants burning themselves and midnight oil; employers taking on unfamiliar chores; laborers sweeping away the concessions they...
Northern Blockade. Basic point made by the Allies in last fortnight's Altmark affair, when the British destroyer Cossack raided a fjord of neutral Norway to liberate 299 British seamen taken from the late raider Admiral Graf Spec's, victims, was that German use and abuse of Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland...