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...week awaited Senate action on a special bill the House had just passed to make him and daughter U.S. citizens. Would-be Citizen Lin is better known as Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, "The Saint." ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June 1940. ∙∙Home to the U.S. came Countess Jeanne von Bernstorff, 73-year-old widow of Germany's Ambassador to the U.S. in World War I. A U.S. citizen since 1939, when...
Disorder flared dangerously in Hitler's New Order last week. In Norway, most persistent trouble-maker for the German conquerors, spontaneous outbursts against Nazi rule broke out from Oslo to Narvik...
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...
This was not another Narvik. There the British were not outnumbered. They just arrived too late, and never established a fighting front...
...guard the narrow Straits of Dover and the mouth of the North Sea between Scotland and Norway-altogether a blockade front of only 300 sea miles. Before the war ended, this entire front was covered by a mine barrage. This time the Germans took Norway, and France fell. From Narvik to Bayonne, 2,300 sea miles, the Germans had their choice of ports. The chart shows how sinkings spurted after the Germans took over Norwegian and French bases...