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...villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which is only 55 miles from Salonika. If in the next few days or weeks this force was met by the British and the Turks-the British would be daring indeed to risk another lonely Narvik-the campaign for control of the Eastern Mediterranean would begin. This struggle would perhaps be no less crucial in world history than the looming attack on the British Isles...
...building submarines and long-distance planes with all his might and main with which to bomb the convoys and to announce their location to the submarines. He will base them on all the ports and airdromes along that line which runs like a vast semicircle round Britain, from Narvik down the northern and western coasts of France to Spain. He will have two new 35,000-ton battleships, the Tirpitz and the Bismarck, and other vessels in the North Sea early next year. With these he will try to deliver a knockout blow at our communications so as to prevent...
...squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...
...President's second son joined the British Army in October 1939. The following February he resigned to lead "a modern crusade" to Finland, but the Finnish War ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt by way of Cape Town, he contracted malaria. Last week he alternated between a sweat and a fret in a military hospital...
...little Berbera, capital of British Somaliland, last week went down in the annals of World War II on the same list as Andalsnes, Namsos, Narvik and Dunkirk. Another "strategic withdrawal" was performed there by the British after only two weeks of fighting against Italy's mechanized invasion. To Italy went 344,700 new subjects in 68,000 square miles of new territory which, while far from rich or productive, rounded out her total hold on Africa's northeast shoulder, rid her of a rear threat to further operations against the British in Egypt, Suez, Palestine, the Sudan...