Word: dunkirk
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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...
...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...
...Josten is now in his second exile from his homeland. He was writing for Eduard Benes' daily Lidove Noviny when the Nazis marched into Prague, escaped to France, where he joined a Czech legion fighting the Germans; he got to England on a British destroyer a month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made...