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...report stressed the forms of U.S. aid-the World War equipment that reached Britain after Dunkirk, the 2,000,000-ton shipping pool, the repairs of British ships in U.S. yards. But it gave only dollar totals and comparative figures (twelve times as many planes in the first five months of 1941 as in the same period in 1940), did not show whether Britain was getting enough, left aid to Britain under the Lend-Lease Act still largely in the category of "on hand and on order...
Largely by means of sheer eloquence, Churchill had been able to keep most Britons' devotion in the face of Narvik, Dunkirk, the Luftwaffe, Libya, Greece-and to quell general fears that Britain's wartime productivity was far short of what it should and might be. But last week, with Crete added to the somber list of defeats, a tide of opinion arose in Britain to the effect that one more major defeat-such as the loss of the Suez Canal-would call for a radical change, if not the exit of the Churchill Government. Few doubted that Prime...
Evacuation was as much more difficult than Greece as Greece was than Dunkirk. At Dunkirk the British had good air protection and good beaches. At Greece they had fair protection and fair evacuation points. At Crete they had no protection and abominable jumping-off places...
Then there was the war. Work on the script started two weeks before hostilities began. Shooting, scheduled for October, was held up until the following April because actors and technicians had suddenly become unavailable. There was a shortage of lumber for sets. Dunkirk over with, half the picture was in cans when the bombing of London began. Then the Nazis turned the Denham studio into a beacon-the point where their bombers swung toward London after crossing the Channel...
...Thumbs up," a 35-minute movie vividly portraying the evacuation of Dunkirk, the burning of London, and shots of the British War Relief Society at work mopping up, is followed by "Warning," an official British movie of air raid precautions, actual raids, and the destruction of Nottingham...