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...bridge between the inner and outer harbor a fiery arc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: R.N. at Taranto | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Industrial Revolution determined the location of Europe's heavy industries-close to the sources of coal and iron. Europe's major coal field lies roughly in a great arc. Using Oslo as a centre it is possible to describe that arc with a compass. It begins in the Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Europe's Sinews of War | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...midnight the British aerial bombardment had been underway five hours and seemed to be increasing in its fury, with flight after flight of British planes taking off in an almost unbroken, droning arc above the Channel...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted by gunfire, and two aides were wounded. General de Gaulle boarded his flagship and signaled an ultimatum. Dakar rejected it. From Vichy, Minister of the Navy Admiral Jean Darlan wired: "Remember the words of Joan of Arc, that 'peace is won only at the point of a lance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fiasco at Dakar | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Western Hemisphere, in Martinique, Guadaloupe and French Guiana, where 80% of the officials were reported for De Gaulle, plebiscites were planned. In Martinique harbor lay the cruisers Emile Bertin and Jeanne d'Arc, the aircraft carrier Béarn with 130 U. S.-made airplanes aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Waiting | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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