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Excursions & Alarms. Dunkirk was only a time of frustration and false alarms for the Canadians. They were waiting, in England, to take their places in the Anglo-French line when Hitler's hordes burst into the Low Countries and northern...
France. The Imperial General Staff called then on Canada's No. 1 soldier, Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, for help in holding the Channel ports. McNaughton visited Calais and Dunkirk in a destroyer, which was bombed and machine-gunned by the Germans, and returned to tell the War Cabinet and Winston Churchill that he did not believe the ports could be held. The British concurred. So the great drama of the Dunkirk beaches passed the Canadians...
...straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud and awful memory, was on the Canadians' list...
...more were isolated as the British crossed into Belgium. Robot attacks on the 'London area fell off sharply. The Germans seemed to have abandoned the heart of the launching area around Calais, for the few missiles that came over early last week were from the Belgian coast beyond Dunkirk...
...Then Dunkirk had come and Britain stood alone against totalitarian might and night. The cigar chewer had said: ". . . We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry...