Word: dunkirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's darkest hour after Dunkirk, Winston Churchill called on his countrymen to defend their island home by joining an unpaid citizens' militia, which he christened the Home Guard. Nearly 2,000,000 Britons stepped forward. Armed at first with pitchforks, pikes and shotguns, they guarded Britain's coasts until the fear of invasion passed. When the Home Guard stood down in 1944, it was a tough, well-drilled fighting force, bristling with Tommy guns, dagger bayonets and U.S. .300-cal. rifles...
...help that came up from northern Italy was swiftly answered. Britain and the U.S. sent amphibious aircraft, helicopters, "weasels" and "ducks" from Germany, Malta and Trieste. These, together with a native fishing fleet, carried out a Dunkirk-like evacuation of the flooded areas. At week's end, 200,000 homeless Italians were queueing up for meals before Italian army field kitchens, and sleeping in jammed schools, churches and homes in such fabled cities as Verona, Padua, Vicinza and Cremona...
...slashed $1 billion, partly by reducing purchases of canned meats, sugar products and fruits in Europe, paring another 2? off the tiny meat ration (total: two small chops weekly), buying less butter, bacon and cheese. The dreary British menu will be thinner and less nourishing than it was after Dunkirk. British tourists will find it more difficult to take steak-hunting vacations on the Continent: their annual foreign travel allowance will be decreased to $140 apiece. There will be fewer housing starts; government stockpiling of strategic materials will be slowed down. To counter inflation, Butler plans to reduce the amount...
...Lord Warden. The crisis Britain faced had none of the sharp, agonizing pain of Dunkirk. It was. rather, a dull ache brought on by years of seeming hopelessness and actual attrition. A new Churchillian call for blood, sweat, toil and tears might not now find the same response as it had before, but for the moment at least, there was reassurance in the old familiar, dogged smile beneath the square black hat. There was an encouraging echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold...
...Dunkirk was a rout and not a victory...