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Young Germans by the tens of thousands had learned to glide. Versailles had denied them, military planes-but not gliders. The invasion of Crete, 22 years later, paid off Versailles' thinking. Planes towed gliderfuls of soldiers to points a few miles off the Cretan coast, then cut them loose...
...grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
...criticism goes, the Labor opposition had been as good as Curtin's word. Chief target recently was Menzies' action in permitting Australian troops to be sent into the disastrous Greek and Cretan campaigns without consulting his own all-party Advisory War Council (TIME, May 5). To many Australians, and particularly to the somewhat isolation-minded Laborites, Menzies has been fighting Britain's war, not Australia's, has skimped Australia's defenses against the growing Japanese threat while Australian men and supplies were poured into the Near and Middle East...
This reduction did not necessarily mean that the Battle of the Atlantic was going much better for the British. In June Britain had no Grecian disaster or Cretan fiasco to swell her shipping losses to the figures of April and May. Nevertheless June was 15% better than the monthly average since the Battle of the Atlantic began in earnest in June 1940. Why, when things were looking up, did the British...
Died. Sir Arthur Evans. 90, the British archeologist whose excavations in Cretan pasturelands uncovered the wholly forgotten Minoan civilization and pushed the frontiers of Aegean history back 2,000 years; in Oxford, England. At Knossos he unearthed the labyrinth made famous by Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur; reconstructed the Palace of Minos complete with murals, plumbing and sunken bathtubs; found evidence that the 2,000-year-old kingdom was overthrown suddenly by seaborne invaders who took the city by surprise and burned the palace...