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...since before Dunkirk...
...Quentin and Marshal Pétain dispatched a force in the nick of time. Churchill reminded the old Marshal that bold action then brought victory on Nov. 11. Yes, said the Marshal, but where is there a British force to save the French today? Churchill had no answer; Dunkirk had robbed him of everything except the will to fight. It had robbed Pétain of everything. He decided to surrender...
Captain Lewis Anselm Ritchie, R.N., was really nervous last week. The small (5 ft. 4 in.), one-eyed, tidy 58-year-oldster had caught hell at Narvik, Dunkirk, Crete, had been torpedoed twice. But his new assignment was, in a way, worse. He was to be press secretary to Britain's royal family. And his first job was to humanize Princess Elizabeth in the eyes of the Empire (and incidentally...
...Dunkirk-first-class port with excellent beaches which served the British in the retreat of June 1940. Canals are hazards, defensive flooding is possible...
Since 1938, when 55-year-old Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay went on the Royal Navy's retired list, he has: 1) evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk; 2) planned the North African expedition; 3) organized the Sicily invasion; 4) turned (last December) to planning the naval phase of the Second Front...