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...these three men. In Ankara it was rumored that Anthony Eden would soon fly to Turkey, to brace the wavering demi-ally. At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer...
Politically the significance was enormous. To British home morale it was a bracer so stiff that even the terrific bombardment of Coventry (see p. 20) could not dull it. It served notice on Germany that the Italian Navy was a dangerously impotent ally. It gave the Greeks, and other interested small nations, profound new respect for the Royal Navy. It convinced many a formerly hopeless U. S. citizen that the British Empire could sufficiently take care of itself to deserve all the help it could get, and by seriously reducing Axis sea power made the seas that much freer...
...barges along the Lowland and French coasts, were targets attacked even in foul weather.* At all costs Britain must interrupt Germany's preparations, play for time. The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer. For even if she stood off Blitzkrieg, Britain already faced Blockade. With customary exaggeration, the German High Command last week claimed that, since obtaining Channel and Atlantic bases, their inroads by U-boat, speed boat and aircraft on British shipping now rose toward the high rates achieved during World...
When London blacked out last September, the theatre blacked out with it. But not for long: the Government realized that a show is as much of a wartime bracer as a whiskey-&-soda, soon permitted every theatre in London to stay open till 10:45 or 11 p.m. For months, with the war so quiet that-as a wag put it-you could hear a Ribbentrop, London's theatre functioned virtually as in peacetime, except for a boom in musical shows and a drop in prices...
...Ick.es, long a fanatic on turning off unnecessary electric lights in the Interior Department, few days ago spied on scores of clerks skulking into the Department cafeteria for a quick bracer (coffee or tea), next day ordered the cafeteria closed after lunch...