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...most terrible of human forces-fright-was abroad in Britain. The people were frightened, as Dunkirk, blitz and buzzbombs had never frightened them...
Something besides fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...
...Dunkirk? This week, as Shinwell's order went into effect, Britain was a nation of confused, angry, alarmed people. Half of Britain's industry-most of her motor factories, machine shops, textile mills-was shut down. About 4,000,000 people were thrown out of work. By candlelight, thousands applied for the dole. Shares on London's stock exchange slumped as traders talked about "an industrial Dunkirk." Many towns were without electricity. Housewives queued up for runs on candles and kerosene. Women & children dragged bags of coal from railroad yards...
Middleton has plenty to forget. At 25, in the spring of 1939, he joined the London Bureau of the A.P. That fall he was one of the twelve U.S. correspondents assigned to the British Expeditionary Force. From then on, in England, Africa and Europe-ending with Dunkirk; and later, after the Blitz, returning to the Continent for the New York Times, he saw more of the war than most of his colleagues, rapidly built a reputation for courageous and able reporting. He is now the Times's correspondent in Moscow, but Our Share of Night covers only...
...Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. He stayed there long enough to graduate from high school and to pick up an unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball. He completed his education in England and France and, as a private in the French army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued him from sentry duty outside the French embassy in London, where French sentries had to stand without shelter throughout the worst of the blitz. We got to know him as De Gaulle's in telligent, well-informed, fair-minded liaison man with the English language press...