Word: crete
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Greece and Crete...
There are some plausible clues that Hitler is planning another Crete in the west: 1) the whole German battle fleet, now a formidable weapon, is assembled between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things...
...life miserable for the correspondents on one of Rear Admiral Philip L. Vian's light cruisers. Then, at dusk of the second day, birds of death appeared in the sky. Five swastikaed transport planes and a Messerschmitt flew overhead, winging from the Libyan front to German bases in Crete. They had sighted the convoy, and the British knew that the next dawn would bring enemy planes and warships...
...command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
Shot Directly? In the pubs there was wild talk that "blacketeers" should be shot, preferably along with brass hats and Government officials smudged from the disastrous campaigns in Norway, France, Crete and Singapore. The British had always groused-it was their national small talk-but rarely had so many groused so grumpily as they did now. The Communist Party claimed to have doubled its membership (to 40,000) in two months. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, told a mass meeting in Liverpool and a tea fight in Park Lane that "this feeling that the Soviet...