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...first was the dark Sunday, May 26, 1940, when the fagged-out British Expeditionary Force was fleeing under torrential Nazi fire toward Dunkirk beach. Five days later most of that Army got safely home through the fogs off Dunkirk...
...Britain, a decisive defeat at Salonika (or anywhere else in the Balkans) would be more than another Narvik or another Dunkirk. It would mean the destruction of Britain's only existing victorious army; the closing of Europe's back door; the focusing of the entire war upon the British Isles-where, in the last analysis, World War II must be decided...
...resilient British, to those wonderfully tough-minded folk who saw a kind of victory in the horrible defeat at Dunkirk, there was no call for despair. There was more than ever a call for vigilance and sacrifice. But the British also found reasons to hope that the Battle of Britain might turn for the better...
ISTANBUL--Another great battle between British and German troops--10 months after Dunkirk and the collapse of France--appeared in the making tonight as reports from Greece told of British troops arriving there in a steady stream...
Died. Second Lieut. Charles Standish Vereker, 29, only son and heir of Viscount Gort (former Commander of the British Field Force), one of the last officers to evacuate Dunkirk last June; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed"; in Dorset, England...