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...would be gutted like a caught trout, the U.S. would return to its historic principle-abandoned for the last four years-of freedom of the seas. If the House did not concur? Hardly a man dared guess at the consequences. But the immediate effect would plainly be a Dunkirk for U.S. foreign policy...
...night. In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York...
School started again last fortnight in Dover, most dangerous spot in England, for the first time since Dunkirk. In the teeth of big German guns across the Channel, most of the 1,300 moppets still left in the city emerged from chalk-cliff cave shelters to hour-and-a-half sessions of the three Rs in six shell-scarred schoolhouses (glassless windows were boarded, roofs patched from bomb hits...
...this time Cohen's associates wanted to get out. It was up to Frank Cohen to buy them out, or get out too. He knew no more about gun-making than a Wall Street customer's man. But meanwhile France had fallen, the British had faced Dunkirk, and the U.S. was trying to arm. So he borrowed some money from old Wall Street cronies like Elisha Walker, paid off the Willys crowd, recapitalized Empire (keeping control) and went to work...
Great Britain replied obliquely last week to increasing pressure for a new expeditionary force. The reply: 36 pages of dispatches by General the Viscount Gort, sent while he was achieving the "Miracle of Dunkirk" in May 1940. There was no trace of the eloquence of the Dunkirk battleground in his reports, only plain speaking with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses...