Word: britannia
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Long Live Britannia and everything she stands for! And may a certain international big bully receive the much-needed beating it deserves...
...British tar will tell you that the Nazis have their hands full now, and for a long time to come. English babies are fed on a mixture of milk, pap, and Britannia-rules-the-waves; and the grown babies are not likely to surrender the guiding principle of their life without a struggle. The Empire will fight to the last ship, and with her fleet will go to Davy Jones many a German vessel as well. One may then reasonably wonder how dangerous to American liberty an enervated and depleted Nazi navy will prove, even assuming English defeat...
...fifth time in 352 years, Britain's Royal Navy set forth last week to meet a major challenge to Britannia's rule of the waves. Under Effingham in 1588, Britain acquired that rule by beating the Armada of Spain in the English Channel. The French Navy of Louis XIV was vanquished at La Hogue (1692). Since then four other masters of bulging European powers have forced a showdown on that rule. Under Nelson at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and at Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's fleet crushed Napoleon's dream of making France an overseas power...
...current influence may not last beyond Germany's need of Russia to fight England. Göring expects to fight the Russians some day. Before war began, his idea of what Germany's foreign policy should be was straightforward: Germany should rule Europe and let Britannia rule the waves. This still sounds good to lots of prominent Britons...
...Threat-of-the-week by Germany was publication of a list of British and French passenger ships which, since they are armed, will henceforth be "treated as enemy warships." Included were Aquitania, Britannia, Cameronia, De Grasse, Empress of Russia, Georgic, Mauretania, Queen Mary. De Grasse reached Manhattan safely this week. Cameronia arrived, too, wearing a new suit of orange-buff paint as camouflage. Theory: any attacking submarine must come to the surface to identify her fully, could then be gunned...