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...Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash and thunder of a battle cruiser opening fire...
...French troops were the storm center. Seldom had France so crudely alienated its 4,000,000 sensitive Syrian and Lebanese subjects as when the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc slid into Beirut harbor last month to land a thousand Senegalese soldiers. Instantly Syrians and Lebanese saw a threat to the independence they had long been clamoring for. The fuse sputtered...
...British Admiralty announced that a Japanese 10,000-ton, eight-inch-gun cruiser had been attacked by torpedo planes and finished by five British destroyers in the Malacca Strait off Penang, Malaya...
South from Kyushu. Jap planes buzzed out of the overcast. Escorting warships, deployed around the dead Franklin, fought them off and fought the Franklin's fires. It was now past noon. The Franklin was still belching smoke and beginning to list heavily when the cruiser Pittsburgh finally succeeded in taking her in tow. At three knots the convoy started crawling away from the shores of Japan, the Franklin yawing and staggering in her agony. Men went to work to correct her 13° list. Hydraulic controls for counter-flooding were out, but Downes and his men put on rescue...
...London, King Christian's brother, Haakon VII of Norway, was likewise preparing to return to his throne in Oslo. Crown Prince Olav and three members of the Norwegian Government in Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...