Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
...director of the International Labor Organization, Winant visited the front during the Battle of France in World War II, left Paris the day before the Germans entered, saw the British soldiers arriving from Dunkirk, saw something of the early bombings of England. (He saw much more as Ambassador...
...hundred years these words have been sung,† or spoken, or whispered by men & women in time of need. The words were sung while the Titanic was sinking and on the beaches of Dunkirk. In World War I, Nurse Edith Cavell repeated the hymn as she faced the firing squad. It has often been heard in prison camps, and it has sounded faintly through the wreckage of caved-in mines...