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...least one British division and two French remained in the hellish strip at Dunkirk pounded now by German artillery as well as bombs, when a stocky figure in a soiled field uniform at last consented to obey orders from London and embark. Accompanied only by two staff officers, General the Viscount Gort stepped into a small boat and went home in soldierly silence. Chief of Staff General Sir John Greer Dill greeted him grimly. King George called him to Buckingham Palace to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Promised Lord Gort: "We will meet them again...
...strong, based on Kirkenes (550 miles by sea northeast of Narvik), it was the best equipped, having been made ready for action during Finland's trouble last winter. Last fortnight Nazi air scouts flew even up to Kirkenes and dropped a few preliminary bombs, preparing to obey their Fiihrer's order to make his conquest of Norway complete...
When he was ordered to tell U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull that all was well in Denmark, he told Mr. Hull instead that he would neither reply to communications nor obey commands of his Foreign Office as long as it was under duress from Germany. Last week Minister de Kauffmann waited for his recall, but he did not intend to be jobless. He was busy setting up a commission to administer the affairs of Greenland. Since such a Danish commission would relieve the U. S. or Canada of the responsibility of feeding and protecting the big island, Minister...
Said a Swedish official in rebuttal: "We know that some young members of the Navy have been Nazis, but they are being watched. . . . Admiral Lindsström is a Swede who will obey his King." With Norway as an object lesson, Sweden has at least had an opportunity to prepare against a Nazi Fifth Column...
Since the Year One (of Fascism-1922) Benito Mussolini had given his people a martial slogan: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" He hurried from naval reviews to maneuvers at sea, from military exercises to parades to grandiose mock campaigns on land. He learned to salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs...