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...British started digging a 13-foot ditch from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Algeciras through the flat, sandy neck (1,300 yd. wide), joining the Rock and the Spanish mainland. Evidently they had reason to expect an attack on Gibraltar, either by loud-talking Spain or by German "tourists" with whom Spain is now crawling...
...Panama Canal can be attacked in three general ways: 1) enemy saboteurs might block its locks or destroy its gates by blowing up a shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...
...rising German tide, pounded by its heaviest artillery and air bombs were Allied garrisons in forts at Liége, Namur, Sedan, Montmédy, who pounded back desperately at the lava flow of German supply and reinforcement. After the break-through at Sedan, Generalissimo Gamelin issued his last-ditch order...
...rather green mountaineers, who were finally rescued from the ditch, were Leonard Kent '43, George Clay '43. Jervis McMechan '42. William Robinson '43, and Clarence Hurley...
...Your German is, of all foul and dirty fighters, the foulest and dirtiest. We must . . . give them hell in every sort of way." As rebellious criticism mounted, political dopesters even mentioned David Lloyd George the "Welsh Wizard" who won the last war for Great Britain, as a possible last-ditch Cabinet appointee. And from France came censored dispatches predicting soon the formation of a "sacred union," Government of all parties...