Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Dunkirks. Britain's Labor Government heard the moaning, promptly ordered up Churchillian propaganda guns to drown the noise. Prime Minister Attlee appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
When the last boatload of valiant fugitives pushed off from the beach at Dunkirk, they left, among the prone bodies, the carcasses of horses, the discarded rifles and smashed cannons, a historical deposit undistinguishable from the sands that the tide washed in & out. It was the remains of the faded Victorian Age, whose shibboleths of family security, personal freedom, humanity, honor, greatness of purpose, faith, liberalism and the intangible called decency had so long stood between civilized society and those forces within itself which are always at war with it. At one stride, a new age, The Age of Violence...
...mistakes, Halder said, were made on the Allied side. Hitler allowed the British Army to escape at Dunkirk by personally ordering the attack on Paris. It was Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
TIME [Aug. 6] refers to Laborite Lieut. General Mason MacFarlane as the "last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...official French report says that Vice Admiral Abrial left June 4, 1940; the British official report says that Major General Alexander left June 3. But because the evacuation of Dunkirk was primarily a British show, Alexander seems most likely to receive history's accolade...