Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sporting Peer. With Hess incommunicado "somewhere in Great Britain," reading detective stories, eating better than many a Briton, talking to Government officials and Foreign Office-man Ivone Kirkpatrick, the press turned much attention on the Duke of Hamilton...
...Nazi leader had been looking for an influential Briton to get the Government's ear for him, Dungavel was hardly the right address. The Duke was away on active service, and his prominence has come mostly in sporting papers and gossip columns...
Protesting against "the levity and lesemajestè" of an editorial in the London Times about the late King George V's spelling, an eminent Briton whose notions are always news wrote a letter to The Thunderer...
...from knowing how effective particular attacks had been. But if the change was also made partly for reasons of home morale, it was an ominous sign. For the weekly report of merchant-tonnage losses has been the best barometer of how the war was going for Britain, and every Briton knows that although his country may survive disasters in the Mediterranean, it cannot survive losing the Battle of the Atlantic...
Winston Churchill asked the House of Commons these questions fortnight ago, and every Briton has been asking himself similar questions. British replacements would certainly not fill the gap. The most optimistic hope for 1941 is 1.000,000 tons, which after shipyard bombings may be closer to 750,000 tons...