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...DUNKIRK (311 pp.)-A. D. Divine-Dutton...
...which has not had a princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...
Later, when Sykes inquired how this could have come about, he was told that the resistance had been organized by the parish priest. He went to the priest. The priest told him that in the early months of the war he had been with a French unit evacuated from Dunkirk. At a small English seaside hotel, under continual bombing, he had been astonished at the behavior of the two women hotelkeepers, who kept up their life as if it were a holiday season in peace. "I recognized in a flash," said the French priest, "we must be formidable...
...mind when he made his gesture toward Western European union last month. Europeans hoped he was talking about more than customs agreements. The British starting point on a Western Union, it had developed, was a system of pacts similar to the Anglo-French 50-year alliance (Treaty of Dunkirk) against "German aggression...
...Allies after Dunkirk...