Word: cline
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English took the start of the was much easier than we did," was the comment yesterday of Ray S. Cline, '39 recently appointed proctor in Weld Hall who studied at Balliol College, Oxford last year...
...Cline, who eluded the State Department by flying to Canada and booking passage on a Dutch boat the day before war broke out, was the only American holding a fellowship to reach England. His ship, loaded with contraband, heard an S. O. S. every day of the trip and was stopped by the British Navy for inspection the day of the Athenia disaster. Steering a zig-zag course across the Atlantic, the Dutch boat almost met disaster by following a Belgian ship in the English Channel. The Belgian ship, a half hour ahead on the same course, struck a mine...
...England, Cline saw no bombings, but plenty of preparation for Hitler's total war with trenches in London and barbed wire around Whitehall. After a six weeks' bicycle tour of England, Cline summed up his impressions: "No shrapnel in my hair, I was very disappointed as a matter of fact...
...beginning the English did not think the Germans would put up a fight. They discussed what the settlement was going to be and there was much talk about a federal union of Europe," Cline explained. But these ideas proved to be only "the pious hope of the time...
...Cline was impressed by the British character and described the English as "a tough bunch to lick...