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Canadians who fought under him knew Irish-born Field Marshal Alexander as a good soldier, a crack commander and a "simple, sensible type of fellow" to boot. He had been at Dunkirk, had commanded the British retreat in Burma, and the victorious campaigns in North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy...
...Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk and the blitz) and at the peak of its moral resurgence (when for more than a year Britain stood single-handed against the might of German-dominated Europe). In the end it had celebrated a tremendous military victory. It had endured bombardment (twelve hits on the Parliament buildings) and mourned...
Joyce was an obscure fascist bully boy in 1939 when he fled England, a week before war began. He took with him a quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
Forgetting the ugly fact of coupons, hats and clothes (with the exception of utility wear) were half again as expensive as pre-Dunkirk. Hats were coupon-free, but in view of the sky-high prices, they might just as well have cost the coupon value of a coat. Last week smart London-designed hats cost from $30, and they were definitely not Paris models. For those, London shoppers willingly paid...