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After the Englishmen came Russian explorers, Yankee whalers and missionaries, German traders. In 1885 German warships dropped anchor off Jaluit, claimed possession of the Marshalls for the Kaiser. Later Germany agreed that Britain should have the Gilberts. The German Navy dreamed of basing a fleet on Majuro atoll (north of Mili), and in World War I Admiral Graf von Spee stopped there on his way to the Falklands. Then in 1914 the Japs seized the Marshalls, along with the neighboring Marianas and Carolines, now site of the Truk powerhouse; they remained in possession with League blessing. From then...
...sense, the battle has been raging ever since the breakup of medieval Christendom. Before Tudor times, Englishmen believed in the Catholic version of the landmass theory. They even tried to climb onto the Continent by attempting to conquer and rule France in the Hundred Years' War. But ever since Christendom split into Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like...
...obscure director of a research seminar on a postwar European federation. But from 1919 to 1940 Coudenhove-Kalergi might have been found in any one of a dozen European capitals, now plucking the sleeve of the sympathetic Aristide Briand, now arguing his case for a federated Europe with noncommittal Englishmen, sometimes going so far as to lobby Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht or Benito Mussolini...
Liberty v. Unity. Since Christian Europe has liberty even more than unity in its blood, the diversionary policies of Britain have been lucky not only for Englishmen but for Europeans. But what if sane men could put Europe together again where the madmen have failed...
...story is a combination of a lot of old ones. Bogart, a tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...