Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preliminary submarine all-out has been threatened several times. The comparative lull of recent weeks tended to confirm the idea that U-boats were being thoroughly tuned up, that new ones were being commissioned, that a greatly intensified counter-blockade would begin soon. In London it was guessed that 600 German submarines, mostly "minnows" of 250-300 tons, would be let loose as a preliminary to invasion...
...speaking, and he was in good form. "I have come to look you in the eye," he said, "and to take your temperature and to break my silence, dear to me especially in wartime." This was his first speech since Nov. 18, when the first shock of terrible Greek counter-attacks had undermined Italian morale. That day he promised grimly: "We shall break Greece's back; whether in two months or twelve months, it little matters...
...reasons, the German counter-blockade has been more effective than in World...
...Starvation from (the counter-blockade...
...culmination of a week in which Folke-Wulf Kurier bombers reported three certain and three probable sinkings 300 miles off Portugal, the Madeira story made some of the blackest reading for the British since the counter-blockade got under...