Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...differences with Churchill were continuous and lasted until the end of the war. At first they arose over Churchill's coolness toward the cross-Channel invasion. Eisenhower, in fact, said that Churchill feared the bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
...government at Warsaw was summoned by a phone call to Moscow. Stalin wanted even more Polish territory than the Curzon Line gave him. Molotov saw the Poles first. He tried to soothe them by saying they could send their shipping from the landlocked Polish port of Elbing through a channel that ran near Konigsberg into the Bay of Danzig. Then the party went to Stalin's office for his approval...
Double Nightmare. The generals got very little information from agents in Britain. (Hitler may have gotten more and kept it from them.) Hitler himself made only one trip to the Channel coast. He went to Cap Gris Nez one day in 1940, looked over the Channel toward Britain, and went home. The "Atlantic Wall" was never a system of continuous fortifications; Rundstedt called its defenses "absurdly overrated." There was no real cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the ground forces, the generals told Liddell Hart. And the Battle of the Bulge, which seemed so powerful an assault to the Allies...
...flagship bound from Washington to Chicago also watched the series on an airborne TV set. Whenever the airliner got beyond station range, it simply climbed 1,000 feet and picked up the signal again. When the plane was equidistant from two stations in different cities, but on the same channel, the result was not a double image. The stronger station...
...Future. Now, says the Times, "these quick, tremendous, inventive, bold people are to be tested once more." For the third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens...