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...Observer concludes that unconditional surrender has now become an unnecessary bar to quick peace. It has made the Germans fight for "naked life"; it has aroused "a Dunkirk spirit." Says the Observer: "If we [Britain, the U.S., Russia] remove that obstacle on our side, it may be a potent means of aiding our fighting men to bring down the obstacle on the enemy side...
...French coast, German troops forcibly evacuated civilians from Calais and Dunkirk. Families were hurried away with no possessions except hand luggage. Their heavy furniture was hauled out and loaded aboard trucks which carried signs: "Gifts of the French people to bombed-out Germans...
...Admiralty issued an appeal to amateur yachtsmen and other civilian boatmen (many of whom helped to save the shattered B.E.F. at Dunkirk in 1940) to serve the Royal Navy "for short periods of duty during the next six months...
Four years and six months have passed since King George VI told his people: "We are at war. . . . We can only do the right as we see the right." Three years and nine months have passed since the King's First Minister, Winston Churchill, arose from Dunkirk's depths and immortally said: "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...
King at Work. In the trembling years of 1940 and 1941, King George spent nearly a third of his time among his people. He watched the Army recover from Dunkirk. He watched the R.A.F. hold back the Luftwaffe (he had earned an R.A.F.'s pilot rating in 1919). He joined the Navy on its prowls around Britain. He was constantly meeting the nation's housewives and munitions girls, its fighter pilots and mine layers. He even had his own personal bomb. After his office on the north side of the Palace had been blitzed, he moved across...