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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"We Shall Fight On." In London, Prime Minister Churchill paid a gallant tribute to "the gallant French people who have fallen into this terrible misfortune," disclosed that Britain had vainly proposed to France union into a single nation. As for England, said he: "We shall defend our island, and with...
The latter readers still remember as the day England and France declared war on Germany. The first date Allen recalls with sketchy vividness. The day after Labor Day, 1929, when the Dow-Jones average of stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On...