Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the Paris bureau of the Chicago Tribune when the war broke out, he returned to the U.S. soon after Dunkirk, after twelve years in Europe. Since then he has made a series of U.S. lecture tours, To his stranger's eyes the U.S. had many symptoms of the political disease which he had seen destroy France...
This was not another Dunkirk. At Dunkirk a British Army which had been ingloriously outmaneuvered and beaten without pitched battle, escaped after abandoning its tanks, its artillery, its ammunition dumps, even its rifles...
Morale. The Germans had another victory, perhaps dampened by their losses. The British had had their worst shock since Dunkirk. But neither may have as much effect on the fortunes of the war as the encouragement which the German victory gave Spain and Vichy to aid the Axis, as the alarm which may lead Turkey to give in instead of fighting...
World War II, Dunkirk, the capitulation of the Belgians-all, according to More About Nostradamus, were foretold. But the quatrain which heartened last week's cinemagoers most was the final one: "At last the two leaders shall be disjointed by the hunt, by a humane rule of Anglican breed, the daughter of the English Isles shall re-establish unity, justice, shall lock war within its bars." Interpretation: The U.S. will win World...
Having spotted numerous British transports, and proceeding to bomb many of them in Peiraeus and off Chalchis, the Germans accused the British of planning another Dunkirk. "Pay close attention to your ports," they urged the Greeks, "because when British transports come for a second time-empty-it is high time to capitulate." This week the Germans claimed they had bombed and sunk five British transports which were trying to evacuate troops...