Word: bramley
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Died. Sir Leo George Chiozza Money, 74, short, swart, startling British economist, onetime M.P. and Encyclopedia Britannica editor; in Bramley, Surrey. Born in Italy as plain Leo Chiozza, he attained a British title, originated Allied shipping strategy against U-boats in World War I. Sir Leo, in letters-to-the-editors, defended Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Japan as "frustrated and deprived nations...
...story concerns the tiny English hamlet of Bramley End and its two-day seizure by four planeloads of German paratroopers disguised as four lorry-loads of British engineers. Unmasked by Nora Ashton (Valerie Taylor), sweetheart of Community Leader Oliver Wilsford (Leslie Banks), who is really a fifth columnist, the Germans pen the villagers in the church...