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...Alexandria, Egypt, the procedure was less dramatic but equally effective. There lay the French battleship Lorraine, the heavy cruisers Tourville and Duquesne, two other cruisers and several smaller ships. Their commanders were simply told that they would not be allowed to obey the Pétain Government's order to come home, on pain of being sunk by gunfire and torpedoes launched from concealed tubes on shore. While the French digested this ultimatum, over came some Italian bombers on a raid and the French ships joined the British in putting up a hot anti-aircraft barrage. A vote...
...served under the late, great Marshal Lyautey in building France's African Empire, arrested M. Daladier, kept him aboard his steamer Massilia guarded by Senegalese troopers. Off Casablanca lay six French cruisers, 21 submarines, 20 trawlers and minesweepers, 60 tankers and other vessels; also the incomplete new battleship Jean Bart, towed down from Brest with only four forward guns mounted. These, too, were to defend French North Africa...
...convicted under this law was David Vanoni, editor of the Italian monthly La Scquilla. He was sentenced to 20 months' imprison ment by the Supreme Court for an article he printed in January criticizing Uruguay's action in connection with the scuttling of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee (TIME...
...Navy's first full 35,000-ton battleship (the 15 in service range from 26,100 to 33,400 tons...
...Dietl, as organizer of the winter sports program at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His division of mountain troops, which he trained himself and led, as he did all things, with fierce personal daring through the Carpathians in last autumn's Polish campaign, was bottled up when British destroyers and the battleship Warspite blasted into Narvik on April 12. Steely and aquiline, Bull Dietl is said to have gone aloft in a warplane to call his friend Adolf Hitler in person by radio telephone. Hitler commanded his other generals in Norway: relieve Dietl at all costs...