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LONDON--The shattering of a Nazi attempt to land troops on the British Isles and a naval air battle near the entrance to Bristol Channel that sent four marauding German destroyers fleeing back to the French "invasion port" of Brest were reported officially today...
Last week the British seemed to know too much. They knew that hundreds of self-propelled barges, speedboats and other light craft had been concentrated in Stavanger, Bergen, Antwerp, Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Calais, Boulogne, Brest and all the way down to the Bay of Biscay. That big convoys of merchant supply and transport ships had been port-hopping into the Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved...
...played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...
...Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard as an example. Your position is that Jones, without a naval base, brought the war to the British Coast and that therefore the distance viewpoint is not 100% accurate. The plain fact is that John Paul Jones operated out of a French base, Brest. France was then at war with England also. His ship was actually an old French merchant ship, his three consorts (Alliance, Pallas and Vengeance) were commanded by French officers, manned by French seamen. Of Jones's own crew more than half were non-American. The captured Serapis was given...
...flower of Spain's Army. That great Armada was worsted in fierce fighting with Effingham's Fleet and practically destroyed by a storm in the North Sea. In 1759 Louis XV's Army waited in Brittany for Admiral Conflans to break the British blockade of Brest, abandoned its plan to invade Britain when Admiral Sir Edward Hawke dispersed the French Fleet at Quiberon Bay. Again in the winter of 1804-05 Napoleon gathered a host of 150,000 men across the Channel, but his indecisive admirals never succeeded in luring the British Fleet away to the West...