Word: channell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Europe's military weakness. The hard fact was that Western Europe's ramparts at the Eastertide were incapable of even slowing any aggressive thrust to the Channel and the Atlantic coast...
...case involved Britain's $3,500,000 damage claim against Albania for two British destroyers which ran into a minefield in the Corfu Channel, off the Albanian coast (TIME, March 3, 1947). The trial, which dragged on for almost two years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining...
...summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes of defeat on the victors, big strapping Germans who manned the great guns that hurled shells across the English Channel into Dover. In the winter of 1942, he decided to join the conquerors. German Waffen SS sent him south to Paris to report for duty...
...Paris he had a change of heart. He came home again. He lived among fears that the Germans would snatch him for desertion, that the Resistance would sentence him for treason. On Liberation Day, Claude disappeared into the sand dunes along the Channel coast. Silent and morose, he lived in deserted German bunkers until the Resistance brought him to trial. He was acquitted...
Buck has stated that with a tuition rise, he will be able to channel all further gifts and endowments into new projects. At present, there are committees on scholarships and on advising working towards reports which should propose important changes in Harvard procedure. There is the matter of rents--with the additional money next year, there seems little reason for any rise in overall room rates. More money now should also be enough of a booster to prevent deterioration in instruction which has made a diploma from many colleges farcical since...