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Steaming at a cautious two knots, d'Iberville crept through the approach to the St. Lambert lock. Just astern came the icebreaker Montcalm, and after her four shoebox-shaped canalboats, veterans of the St. Lawrence's old 14-ft. waterways and sentimental favorites to head the procession of Canadian, American and foreign cargo carriers into the seaway...
Across the Mediterranean to troubled North Africa poured the greatest flow of reinforcements since the days when Rommel's Afrika Korps held sway. The French cruiser Montcalm landed a battalion of French infantrymen at Casablanca, and a steamer brought 400 more; nine battalions started moving to Algeria, following the six from Germany that had already arrived; transport aircraft brought naval commandos. Back in France, 100,000 conscripts had their period of service lengthened indefinitely; 50,000 reservists were recalled to the colors. All told, the rapid build-up brought French strength in colonial North Africa to some...
...After consultation with Columbia Historian Allan Nevins, veteran Radio-TV Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
...separated from his sweetheart, Maritza, now has to face such things as torture, chains, life imprisonment in the galleys, sudden freedom, and the encompassing arms of a passionate French countess. Face them he does, with fortitude and kisses. Next, commissioned in the British army, he ships to Canada, outwits Montcalm, helps Wolfe win his great victory at Quebec, returns to England a hero and is assigned by Pitt himself to a delicate diplomatic mission in Paris. There, naturally, he finds his steady old flame Maritza, still possessed of a local reputation for chastity. Happy of heart, Richard and Maritza leave...
...flotilla were three cruisers, Georges Leygues, Montcalm, Gloire, and three big destroyers, Le Fantasque, L'Audacieux, Le Malin. They had been anchored at Toulon until last week, along with other survivors of the Battle of Oran Bay. Under terms of the armistice between Germany and France, they had supposedly been disarmed and laid up for the duration of the war. What, then, were they doing...