Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joyce was an obscure fascist bully boy in 1939 when he fled England, a week before war began. He took with him a quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
Forgetting the ugly fact of coupons, hats and clothes (with the exception of utility wear) were half again as expensive as pre-Dunkirk. Hats were coupon-free, but in view of the sky-high prices, they might just as well have cost the coupon value of a coat. Last week smart London-designed hats cost from $30, and they were definitely not Paris models. For those, London shoppers willingly paid...
...from this "caretaker" government were Labor and Liberal stalwarts like Clement Attlee (formerly Deputy Prime Minister) and Sir Archibald Sinclair (formerly Minister for Air), who preferred to cross the Commons floor to the opposition benches. The government which had brought Britain through the war frorn the dark days of Dunkirk to the Nazi surrender at Reims, had become past history. Their future government was up to the British voters, who will elect it next July...
Finesse & Secrets. Britons and Americans had little trouble. Some surrendering Germans indulged in last small gestures of arrogance, then were docile enough. In the Aegean Islands 17,000 Axis troops were handed over to a British brigadier. At the French ports of Dunkirk, Lorient, La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire (see RADIO), hundreds of miles behind the last fighting fronts, some 75,000 Germans downed arms. In one area north of Hamburg where 300 SS marines stubbornly holed up in a forest to fight on, the British with exquisite finesse declared the area out of bounds for Britons, and ordered Wehrmacht...
Many Allied military men believe that the Germans made one colossal blunder: their decision to invade Russia rather than Britain. Not only in the popular British view, but in the view of Allied military men, immediately after Dunkirk Britain lacked the physical means of repelling a determined invasion. The Germans would have found it costly but they would probably have succeeded...