Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision to send all-out aid to Russia was as courageous in its way as the decision last year to defend the Mediterranean at a time (just after Dunkirk) when the British had nothing with which to defend themselves "but a few rifles and a few good boys in good planes. Since that time the British have brought their home strength somewhere near to the point of adequacy, but the sacrifice of major quantities of materiel from Britain and Egypt will be more than a noble gesture. It will be a real military risk...
...uncertain manner. "A Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that has yet been turned out on World...
...pass and no crisis appear at all. We have been told, at regular intervals, when popular excitement seemed to be dying down, that our danger was far more serious than six months or a year ago--though there has never been any moment half so perilous as that when Dunkirk fell. The situation since then has steadily improved. The talk these last 12 months has been more like the baying of frightened dogs than the discussion of reasonable men. And loud in the pack have been members of the Harvard Faculty. They have raved, and raged, and roared, as though...
...Hitler is going to win, do they? We don't think so Downalong, not for a single minute.' " Mrs. Aitken, "the doyenne of Upalong," said: "The news lately has been rather queer, hasn't it? I was quite worried until Ronnie (her grandson) got out of Dunkirk." But every morning Mrs. Kennedy rushed down to the radio to find out if "it" had happened in the night. "Everybody seems to assume that the invasion will begin at dawn some...
...Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan angrily considered a letter from 62-year-old General Count Benoît Léon de Fornel de la Laurencie. A brave fighter in France's brief World War II defense, the General was among the few French commanders at Dunkirk. There he bucked up his exhausted troops by holding a review. Said Gringoire: "When they passed in front of their chief, they turned their hardened, sunburned faces toward him, in an immense téte-à-téte. All of their expressions were at once so proud...