Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British clamped shut, at Gibraltar and Suez, the gates of their Mediterranean cage for Mussolini. This action cut off Italian East Africa from Rome. The Allies rounded up throughout the world such Italian merchant ships as did not scuttle themselves or hole up in neutral ports, including the Umbria en route to Eritrea through the Red Sea with 5,000 tons of air bombs and thousands of bags of cement...
...grave and pale when he entered the train, the decision that he had made seemed to strengthen him. It had been a week of swift decision: he announced the release by executive order of Navy planes which, to be resold to the Allies, were flown at once to Buffalo, en route to Canada; by the same device he had made available more than 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles, machine guns, ammunition, 755. But the great strain of the week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini's attack. He smiled and waved when the crowd...
...have to reconstitute and build up the B. E. F. once again under its gallant Commander in Chief, Lord Gort. All this is en train. But now I feel we musjt put our defense in this island into such a high state of organization that the fewest possible numbers will be required to give effectual security and that the largest possible potential offensive effort may be released...
Crushed Counter-Thrust. The Lowlands were not fighting alone. Ninety minutes after receiving their call for help, the Royal Air Force and French Air Corps took wing en masse to harry the oncoming German columns in Belgium and Holland, to bomb the Rhineland, including Essen, heart of the steelmaking Ruhr, in retaliation for German attacks on France's industrial centres...
Sibelius: En Saga; In Memoriam; The Bard; Pelleas and Melisande Suite; Valse