Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outposts. Iraq and Iran would now at least be buffers. Britain's Middle Eastern Commander in Chief General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck flew to Cyprus, where he declared himself well satisfied with defenses, particularly air fields, which had been rushed into being to prevent a Crete repeat...
...Battle of Crete last week reached Puget Sound. The Bainbridge Review (a suburban weekly, brightly edited by young Seattlites) burst out with a banner headline: REVIEW VIOLATES A NATIONAL CENSORSHIP. Prefacing its editorial with the statement, "For several weeks now the Review has been torn between a normal desire to obey an unofficial Government censorship and what we feel deeply to be a solemn duty to our readers," the Review announced that the British battleship Warspite was in the Bremerton Navy Yard near Seattle for repairs. The Review's reasons...
...only look out the window and see the ship lying there. Many Islanders have seen the vessel, either enroute to Bremerton or in port. Thousands of Seattle residents know where she is. British tars freely move about, telling frankly where their ship is and what she went through at Crete. There isn't a foreign agent who hasn't already told his Government about the Warspite...
...Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones. Lender Jones was reported present at a discussion of an alleged British Lend-Lease requisition for glasses of all kinds-sherry, port, brandy glasses. The order supposedly ended with a request for several drums of rum. Doubtless not bearing in mind Dunkirk, Libya, Crete and the R.A.F. every night over the Channel, Jones is supposed to have instantly suggested: "Give them the rum. Maybe they'll fight...
Undoubtedly the grimness of the war was coming home to the German people. The Russian campaign had been neither swift nor bloodless. German families without a casualty in Poland, France, the Balkans, Africa or Crete heard that a son, a father, a husband, a sweetheart or a friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...