Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next most important claim of last week was that the British Home Fleet was not in Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...
...World War I, Admiral Jellicoe moved the Fleet from dangerous Scapa Flow to Belfast, Ireland. * Unofficial report is that the Admiralty had warning that some sort of raid was imminent, moved the Fleet out just in time. In his weekend oration (see p. 21), Mr. Churchill declared the Fleet "awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during the last week...
Critics previewed the picture in London an hour after an air-raid warning had put them in the right frame of mind. What they saw was a frank propaganda picture starring Ralph Richardson* as a Flight Commander, Merle Oberon as his Red Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible...
Excellently made (with his own money, according to Producer Korda, though later the British Government bought it), the picture maintained a mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot...
When unfriendly Indians are egged on by British Tories to burn Lana's cabin, her baby dies at birth. Homeless Gil and Lana go to work for plainspoken, horse-faced Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver). There is another Indian raid, and, just as the women and children are being put to the tomahawk, Gil, who has gone for help, returns with the Yankee-Doodling Continental Army...