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...Small units of British and Italian planes, ships, tanks and troops clashed at various spots along the 4,000-mile arc from the Pillars of Hercules, around the Mediterranean, down through the Red Sea, through the Somalilands and into northern Kenya...
...world. Under the guns of Fort-de-France and Negro Point at Martinique in the West Indies still lay the aircraft carrier Beam, the mine-laying cruiser Emile Bertain, two light cruisers, four destroyers and a patrol ship. At Guadeloupe, just north, lay the training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. British cruisers prowled so near, defying the French to run for home, that jittery Martinique complained it was blockaded. U. S. warships in the Virgin Islands kept steam up for a dash to maintain the sanctity of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Neutral Zone." Without hindrance from the British...
This was Adolf Hitler's first visit to the Forest of Compiégne, where Louis XVI received Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon received Marie-Louise, where 510 years ago Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers...
...gray pall, impenetrable as a Limehouse fog, settled over Paris last week. The long boulevards were veiled, the Arc de Triomphe blotted out. Parisians had never seen anything like it. Some thought it was the edge of a huge and newly invented Nazi smoke screen blown in from the front, for London and the southeast British coast were also sooted. Some believed it came from the suburban fires, others that it was the work of Paris' own Sainte Genevieve. Still others said...
Roaring through the suburbs of Argenteuil and Neuilly, they entered the swank west end of Paris and swung into the broad Avenue de Neuilly leading to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysees. Another column raced in from St. Denis in the northeast. Horse-drawn supply trains clopped across the Place de la Concorde (see cut, p. 21). No single tank or Nazi warrior passed under the famous Arc because that honor was reserved for Adolf Hitler when he should make his triumphal entry...