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...British destroyers-of which there must have been at least two divisions, eight craft-cut the sea up with torpedoes. Most of the destroyers carried eight torpedoes. The Havock, Captain Watkins, which gave a good account of herself at Narvik, signaled the flagship: "I am hanging onto the stern of the Pola. Shall I board her or blow her stern off with depth charges? Haven't any torpedoes left." But another destroyer got the Pola...
...Britain, a decisive defeat at Salonika (or anywhere else in the Balkans) would be more than another Narvik or another Dunkirk. It would mean the destruction of Britain's only existing victorious army; the closing of Europe's back door; the focusing of the entire war upon the British Isles-where, in the last analysis, World War II must be decided...
Unlike 1917, the whole coast of Europe from Narvik to Bayonne was now German. The shipbuilding facilities of the whole Continent were now German. Germany now had not 100, but (with the Italians) at least 300 U-boats, and more being readied. Germany now had long-range bombers, notably the Focke-Wulf Kurier, specifically designed to ride far out over the seaways to sink ships...
Last week, far to the north, the British did it again-this time, on a slightly bigger scale. In foggy weather naval units attacked the port of Svolvoer, in the Lofoten Islands, off Narvik, Norway, and then withdrew. "No military importance whatever," the Germans said; "a propaganda maneuver ... a mere bagatelle ... a typical Don Quixote stroke, which could only be carried out by a country sunk as low as England...
...French Ambassador has two busy aides in his press attaché, Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France...