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...Azov, they had closed the Germans' last channels of escape via Rostov. There were reports of the Red Fleet's harrying boatloads of Germans fleeing across the narrow (3 mi.) Kerch Straits to the Axis-held Crimea. The most the Nazis could hope for was a Dunkirk, but it seemed more likely that they would suffer another Stalingrad...
...Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...
...Nevile Henderson may have awakened to the facts at last. He joined the British Home Guards after Dunkirk, became group commander (colonel) in April 1941. He spent much time in making public speeches and appeals to aid the British refugees who drifted back from blasted Europe (Failure of a Mission raised ?38,300 for that cause). Last week his mission on this earth ended. He was asleep when death came...
...broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
...whom the mark of a religious background is deep. Said he to his soldiers: "Let us unashamedly and humbly ask God's help in our endeavors and strive to deserve it." Like many of his devoted, knobby-kneed Scotsmen and war-hardened Englishmen, he is a veteran of Dunkirk...