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Thus, day after dreary day, Douglas MacArthur cheered his tired men. He himself must have been sustained by the growing realization that he was a national hero. Cables and radio messages of congratulations continued to pour in last week-from the workers at the Picatinny Arsenal. Dover, N.J.; from veterans of his World War I Rainbow Division; from New York City's Inner Circle, a political writers' club. But General MacArthur could not know how great and how American his legend had grown...
...sweeping review of the war at sea, Alexander disclosed that the battle of Dover Strait may have been a British victory rather than defeat because if the three warships which forced the English Channel are laid up indefinitely, Germany's plans for creating a big surface feet are seriously impaired...
...even dared such an exploit since 1690, when the French Admiral Tourville defeated the British and the Dutch off Beachy Head and then triumphantly swept along the English coast. The humiliation was not distant; it took place in the Channel itself, named for the homeland, in the Strait named Dover...
...Germans ran a super-gantlet: the British Home Fleet, the Fleet Air Arm, the entire R.A.F., the big guns of Dover, minefields. The Germans were not driven into this corridor of hell; they chose it. And when they were safely through, it was the British who were bloody. The British had lost 20 bombers, 16 fighters and six torpedo planes, had suffered heavy damage to at least one destroyer. The Germans admitted losing 28 planes, which they might do in a day of raiding along the Kentish coast...
...Most popular song on the juke boxes, networks, sheet-music counters was The White Cliffs of Dover ("There'll be bluebirds over...