Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief critical voice, as in the debate after the loss of Greece and Libya, was that of onetime Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. But for the most part he had only such dubious suggestions to make as that 100 more fighting planes would have turned the tide in Greece, and only such vague conclusions to draw as: "It is evident that in strategy there has been on our side no adjustment to the tempo or to the resources of the enemy. . . . I deem it my duty to warn the country that it is only by handling our problems with...
...engaged in desperate defense of the Suez Canal, were this week also engaged in offensives away from the Suez Canal in both directions. The campaign in Syria sputtered in a confusion of amity and murder (see below). From Egypt the British staged an attack on Axis forces in Libya which had a look of desperate deadliness (see p. 31). But these were both defensive offensives. They were both blows struck in haste to ward off blows. The Syrian campaign was being fought because of a rumble of enmity to the north; the North African attack was made because...
...General Officer Commanding the British forces in Egypt thought he saw something coming from the direction of Libya last week-something pretty big. He decided to strike the big thing before it struck...
...week, clean of sand, trained westward, and mounted for mobility. To make some of his guns mobile, he had loaded them on to ordinary trucks. He would have been glad to have a few more shielded guns on wheels-Bren carriers and tanks; but with the Axis threat from Libya growing every day, General Marshall-Cornwall knew it was now or never; attack or be attacked...
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...