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...Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood the journey well, and he was received in London like a conqueror-as befitted a man who during the trip had dreamed that he was landing at Pevensey, where William the Conqueror landed in 1066. Later Freud was so delighted with his new home and garden that he told Jones: "I am almost tempted to cry out 'Heil Hitler...
...centre of the British Empire. Its military geography was generally dismissed with one word, invulnerable. Across its wind-whipped moat-the English Channel-no invader passed to establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland to conquer England. And thrice since then this coast has been seriously threatened by an invading army...
...Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader on the east coast (Harold of Norway) whom they repelled (Battle of Stamford Bridge). Returning hurriedly...
Tough Mr-Mollison. A Gipsy-Moth biplane plunked sloppily down upon the gravel beach at Pevensey Bay, England, tipped up on end, flopped back on its haunches and rested. Out of the cockpit crawled a haggard Scotsman, one James A. Mollison, 25, to respond fully to the questions of an excited little crowd. Eight days and 21 hrs. prior he had left Australia, 10,000 mi. away. Every day he had forced his small plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into...
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