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Some millions of them were headed for Canada-green, fresh, cool and twice as big as all outdoors. By road, rail and rattletrap they went. In the hot August sun their cars headed north around Lake Champlain and Memphremagog, or along the orange-colored cliffs of Lake Superior and the blue water of Puget Sound...
...best advertising slogans of the 20s and 30s was "the longest gangplank in the world." It meant the French Line-and Gallic cuisine, Gallic wines, service flavored with I-kiss-your-hand-Madame. Today the luxurious gangplank is abbreviated. Normandie, Champlain, Paris are all gone. Only lie de France, queen of luxury, and the slow-going De Grasse are left. Of the line's 53 freighters only 22 are still afloat. But the gangplank is to be rebuilt...
...Lake Erie & Lake Champlain, 1813-14. Disputes over British blockade orders directed mainly against Napoleon led to the War of 1812, in which there was nothing for the U.S. to attack except Canada; the key to Canada was the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes line of water communications. Hoisting his large blue battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Erie. On Champlain Captain Thomas MacDonough anchored his ships in such an advantageous position that when the British tried to attack him, he put them...
...would be targets for defending bombers and artillery. The shores of the lower St. Lawrence are sheer and bold, could be held thinly by determined, well-armed men. At Quebec is the beginning of the lowland country which widens out into the fertile Richelieu Valley and south toward Lake Champlain. Farther upstrean lies Montreal, Canada's metropolis and No. i seaport. To launch a land thrust to the south an invader would have to hold the Montreal-Quebec line as well as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to protect his supply line...
...British captured the first U. S. S. Washington in 1776 (on Lake Champlain). With shells, torpedos and bombs, the U. S. Navy sank its fifth Washington in 1924. This sacrifice was then supposed to be the highest form of sanity; the U. S. people were glad to contribute an unfinished, 32,000-ton battleship to Disarmament. The U. S. having adopted new standards of sanity, the Navy last week launched its sixth Washington...