Word: crete
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...learned the "oneness" of the European idea. The Coudenhoves originally rose to great estate in The Netherlands and Belgium. They followed their dukes from the Low Countries into Austria when the French Revolution turned Europe upside down. The Kalergis originated as a family with a great name in Grecian Crete. Eventually the Coudenhoves and the Kalergis came together, but only after mixing their bloods with the blood of Balts, Germans, Norwegians and Polish Russians. Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi's union with a Japanese girl was quite in line with the marrying tradition of his family...
...after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
Apart from any predetermined strategy, a secure Allied position in Italy must eventually make the lower Balkans untenable for the Germans. In southern Italy, the Allies have already outflanked the Germans in the southern Balkans and destroyed most of Crete's value as a base guarding the Mediterranean approaches. Crete was formidable when it lay between the Allies in North Africa and the Germans in southeastern Europe. Now the Allies are behind Crete. Military men in Cairo expect that island, once a symbol of German triumph and might, to fall "like a ripe apple...
Nazi prospects in Yugoslavia are better, and they are improved the farther north the Germans look. To outflank Yugoslavia, as Greece and Crete are already outflanked, the Allies must take most of German-held Italy. Last week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate...
Cameras for Guns. The Warspite had fought the Italians at Matapan; she had put a broadside into the Italia (then the Littorio) at Taranto. She had been bombed off Crete. Of late she had seen nothing of the Italian Navy. Now, as the Italians approached, the Warspite's crew manned the guns. But they were not in combat dress. Many of them aimed cameras...