Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significantly the pounding unit went to Crete. The move was a blunt tip-off that so far as the Germans were concerned the job of bridging the Mediterranean to Libya was finished; that the Axis force there was nearly ready to roll. The move brought death from the air to Alexandria, which lies within striking distance of Crete (see p. 21). At Crete the unit was also available if necessary for action in Syria...
...above all the shift turned the heat on besieged, already broiling-hot Tobruch. For two months the British had clung to this inhospitable town because it lay athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would...
...last week Japanese communications were sufficiently harassed so that the imitative invaders resorted to dropping supplies and ammunition by parachute, a la Crete. The Japanese announced that troops had been withdrawn, "the military objectives having been achieved"-the familiar Japanese formula of frustration...
...means of sheer eloquence, Churchill had been able to keep most Britons' devotion in the face of Narvik, Dunkirk, the Luftwaffe, Libya, Greece-and to quell general fears that Britain's wartime productivity was far short of what it should and might be. But last week, with Crete added to the somber list of defeats, a tide of opinion arose in Britain to the effect that one more major defeat-such as the loss of the Suez Canal-would call for a radical change, if not the exit of the Churchill Government. Few doubted that Prime Minister Churchill...
...looming power shortage has caused public powerites to ask for more generators. Since then diversion of tankers to the 2,000,000-ton shipping pool has enforced huge orders for pipelines; the aircraft program has once more been enlarged; a further increase in shipbuilding is projected. Since then Crete has fallen. Puzzled laymen wondered whether Mr. Dunn's next quarterly report would include still gloomier revisions than Lend-Lease enforced upon this...