Word: blenheims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed raid on Zeebrugge failed to rivet up the Bruges Canal, but it showed the world something and left Britain proud. When the diplomats have failed and the smoke gets thick, something happens to the blood of English men of action. Crecy, Blenheim, Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland have shown that it is not equipment but spirit which wins battles for Britain. It did not matter, therefore, that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what...
...morning last week two squadrons of heavy Blenheim and Wellington bombers soared out of Midland mists and headed for France. Fully loaded, cruising at 6,000 feet under sealed orders, they crossed the Channel to Le Havre, turned due south. At nine o'clock eight more squadrons of medium Hampden and Battle bombers left England to touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers...
...march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once in the past few centuries on less peaceful missions. Far more significant, zooming overhead will be five squadrons of Spitfire and Hurricane fighting planes, and Blenheim, Hampden and Wellington bombers, 52 planes in all, sent over from Britain for the occasion...
Also Englad can quit debating about Jutland, for it and perhaps Trafalgar and Blenheim were lost at Munich...
...revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being a "good Englishman." For the modern reader, main interest in Author Churchill's six volumes is likely to centre less on Marlborough's dubious innocence than on the spirited picture of diplomatic skulduggery which distinguished the whole cast of characters...