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Last week Abbeville (eleven miles up the Somme estuary from William's embarkation point) and Boulogne were both in the grasp of Adolf Hitler. So apparently was Calais, nearest port to the British coast (25 miles from Dover). But the attempt by Hitler to invade Britain his power dream's dearest chapter-was not expected by experts to come from these beachheads...
...Tilghman Isabelle Foster, Milton Charles H. Tobias, Jr. Carol Flarsheim, Brookline Robert H. Troescher Doris Goerger, Lynbrook Byron E. Varn Rarette, Jr. Virginia Seay, Vassar John H. Vaughan Patricia Adams, Wellesley George Waissbord-Solovieff Marguerite Madden, Winsor Morton Waldstein Marie Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster Jean Gebhard, Pine Manor John Wingate Weeks, II Sally Cole, North Andover Clifford E. Weihman Louise Brown, New York Joseph D. Welsh Helen Cronin, Milton Frederick G. Whoriskey Marjorie Griggs, Wellesley David...
...fearing London newspapers carried no weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled up on the Dover-Folkestone Road, that the Scottish lochs were frozen solid, that all of Britain shivered. The London Daily Mail gleefully published a cold-wave poem which, it said, had been held up for ten days, finally to be passed with "alterations...
Neutral shipping was warned last week by the British Admiralty to 'ware a vast new mine field it was laying, all the way from Kinnaird Head, on Scotland's northeast shoulder, down to join the fields laid earlier off Yorkshire and in the Dover Straits. These 500 miles of North Sea are to be sown in a band varying from 30 to 40 miles wide, leaving eight miles of safe water between mines and shore. Secret alleys through the mine field will be left for British Naval craft, but neutral ships will have to use the Dover...
...Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German mines...