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...rest of Europe, the Germans needed at least the chance of a successful stand against Communist power. A substantial U.S. military commitment in Berlin and on the Elbe would give them, and all Europeans, the feeling that "then everything would be different." Instead of a German and European Dunkirk and then a dreary war of liberation all over again, there would be at least the prospect of stopping the Communist push as soon as it started. And out of the common defense could rise a mighty, cohesive, free Atlantic community. This was the prospect for which West Germany...
That was all, but in exactly 60 seconds, a Coast Guard patrol boat was moving seaward; soon a Dunkirk-like fleet of 30 Army tugs, naval auxiliary craft, Coast Guard vessels and fishing boats were heading through the Golden Gate...
Afterward, Walker said to newsmen: "We will not give up an inch of ground that is not already lost . . . There's no thought in the mind of anybody in this Army-even though we might be so disposed-that there can possibly be a Dunkirk. It would be impossible...
Shades of Dunkirk. Explained one of his lieutenants: "The Old Man's dead against showing too much target for them to attack us. Instead, he's set on seeking out the cracks in their armor and probing home his steel wherever he can penetrate." In accordance with their platform, The Right Road for Britain (which has sold 2½ million copies since it was published last summer-TIME, Aug. 1), the Tory leaders called for a reduction of taxes and government spending, promised they would keep Labor's social services but manage them less wastefully, would halt...
...defiant angle, he cried: "If the government of Britain is entrusted to us at this crisis in her fate, we will do best for all, without fear or favor, without class or party bias . . . but with the clear and faithful simplicity that we showed in the days of Dunkirk . . ." An thony Eden, Churchill's deputy, also echoed wartime urgency: "We can promise only hard and challenging times...