Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely demobilized and disarmed, with the exception of troops needed to preserve order. Except for such portions as are needed to safeguard French colonial possessions, the Fleet is to be collected in specified ports-under the assurance that Germany will not employ it for its own purposes, except for coastal surveillance and minesweeping. No Frenchman may serve against Germany in the service of other powers...
...Land and coastal defenses must be handed over intact, as well as plans of fortifications, mine charts, etc. The French are to carry on minesweeping...
...Italian Legation in Tangier. Ostensibly there are only 1,000 Italians in the population of 75,000, but there are 12,000 Spaniards, and across the Strait, Spanish demonstrators last week shouted, "Gibraltar for Spain!" Just east of Tangier along the coast in Spanish Morocco loomed great coastal guns installed there for Spain by Germany, breasting the British guns on Gibraltar. Opening the western gate of her Mediterranean cage is one of Italy's prime aspirations, and the sidling maneuvers last week of Italian submarines (some of which put into Spanish ports) and planes made it look like...
...German High Command, announcing the occupation of Dunkirk, claimed the capture of 40,000 Allied troops in the siege-wrecked coastal town. And Hitler, describing it as the end of the greatest battle of destruction of all times, asserted that the Allied defeat in Flanders assures a German victory...
Flushing, the best coastal harbor, and Den Helder, Holland's chief naval base, were heavily bombed, and even the ancient harbor of Stavoren on the Zuider Zee was shelled. Elsewhere, except in key defense towns like Breda, Tilburg and Maastricht, physical damage had not been great. For the rest, most of the great cities surrendered too quickly to be bombed...