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...Germans have evidently been making the most immense preparations for the invasion of Britain, and they are on the eve of launching their contraptions into the seas that constitute the moat of our island castle...
...Germany your fear in America of invasion from across the seas strikes us as a strange delusion, and stranger still is the delusion that the invasion is to come from Germany. . . . With a 'moat' more than 3,000 miles wide on one side and more than 5,000 miles on the other, America is simply not invadable by air or sea. That's particularly true if America's armaments and national defense are appropriate to or commensurate with the country's size, population, resources and industrial production, not to mention the spirit of the people. . . . Militarily it's absurd...
...plan: blow out the lifelines. Raiding squadrons of bombers, sometimes 80 and 100 strong, escorted by fighters, had already struck time & again at Devonport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Dover, especially hard at the bustling docks of the Thames Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo boats based just across the water in sight of Britain's headlands. Last week the attacks reached crescendo...
...following pages TIME presents a map of Southeastern England. For centuries men have been accustomed to describe it as the political, financial and cultural centre of the British Empire. Its military geography was generally dismissed with one word, invulnerable. Across its wind-whipped moat-the English Channel-no invader passed to establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland...
...Various newspapers squawked that Hoover's headquarters in Miami Beach had been a villa on The Nautilus (hotel) grounds, a palm-shaded island guarded from the world by a moat and a cop stationed at the bridge, and quoted rates for the villa at $175 a week, meals not included...