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...Aboard the 49,850-ton, 936-ft. Liberté were Actress Irene Dunne, TV Star Jack Carter, French Line's President Jean Marie and 1,317 other passengers, few of whom could see any signs that the Liberte had once been the North German Lloyd's proud Europa...
...outside, the Liberté looked much the same as the Europa did in 1930, when she held the blue ribbon for the fastest (4 days 17 hrs. 6 min.) east-west transatlantic crossing. The climax to her German career came in 1939, when she slipped out of New York on Aug. 22, skipped her Channel stops, and scurried into Bremerhaven three days before war began. There Allied troops found her, in May 1945, filthy from neglect but undamaged by bombing. Used briefly as a U.S. Navy transport, she was returned to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency because U.S. experts thought...
...blasted from a Long Island cradle, set course for Europa, waited till we were about six hours away from Earth's gravitational field, then cut over to Biggs's velocity intensifier, using which we could look forward to setting foot on Europa within two days at the most...
...imposed exile in France). A British-born Anglophobe, Briffault left medicine for the social sciences, in 1927 writing The Mothers, an exhaustive study of matriarchies, and in 1938 scornfully castigating his country in The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Britons were too soft to survive). His novels (Europa; Europa in Limbo) presented European upper-class society as too diseased to be worth saving...
...months before Allied soldiers breached Festung Europa at Normandy, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt stubbornly argued over who would occupy the industry-rich Ruhr. After the invasion, Churchill's claim was reinforced by the top-level political and military decision to give Field Marshal Montgomery command of the sweep along the lowlands toward northeast Germany. Roosevelt finally yielded, let Churchill have the Ruhr...