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...keep German submarines bottled up in 1917-18, all the British had to do was guard the narrow Straits of Dover and the mouth of the North Sea between Scotland and Norway-altogether a blockade front of only 300 sea miles. Before the war ended, this entire front was covered by a mine barrage. This time the Germans took Norway, and France fell. From Narvik to Bayonne, 2,300 sea miles, the Germans had their choice of ports. The chart shows how sinkings spurted after the Germans took over Norwegian and French bases...
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...hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...
...George A. Smith 3L, Atlanta, Ga.; William F. Smith 2L, Los Angeles, Calif.; Felix F. Stumpf 3L, Cambridge, Mass.; Robert O. Swados 3L, Buffalo, N. Y.; John R. Taylor 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Leonard Ugelow 2L, St. Albans, N. Y.; Sidney Werlin 2L, Malden, Mass.; and Edward D. Wynot 3L, Dover...
...Hitler to Mussolini so that II Duce could feel that he was helping, granted by Mussolini to his people so that they could feel easier about British raids on Italy. The Italians' first effort was certainly a token. Five Italian bombers surrounded by swarms of Messerschmitts tentatively approached Dover, saw squadrons of British fighters, dropped their bombs in the sea, then turned around and skinned for camp, while the Messerschmitts proceeded inland for serious business...