Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone in & out of air-raid shelters, hospitals, airplane factories, chemical works, pubs (in one, when he bought beer for the soldiers, the proprietor broke out a bottle of champagne he had been saving for the Armistice). On the eve of his return he flew unexpectedly to Dublin to lunch with Prime Minister De Valera and the Cabinet Members of Eire; in a message to Germany he spoke as an American of German descent who opposed everything that Hitler stood for. Everywhere his reception was tumultuous, enthusiastic, unvaried. The tributes ranged from the London Times ("Everywhere and with everyone...
Like an air-raid siren through all the testimony sounded the need for haste. The British were running out of cash, declared the Treasury's Morgenthau. Since December all major British contracts had been held up. U. S. aircraft manufacturers would run out of British orders in April, unless Britain could issue new ones right away...
This picturesque raid was not likely to sway the fortunes of the African war, but it had excellent propaganda value. It was the first successful independent operation of Free Frenchmen against anything but other Frenchmen. Three days after General Catroux's announcement, General de Gaulle addressed a call to arms to the pro-Vichy armies under General Maxime Weygand in North Africa and Syria: "Are you going to remain inactive with arms at your side, humiliated, broken-spirited, when the fate of France and her Empire is being decided within range of your guns? . . . The game is not finished...
Land patrols based on Kenya continued to raid small Italian outposts in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Italian Somaliland. The South African air force bombed and machine-gunned forts and military buildings, and helped seize several vital waterholes...
Officials stated that they had foreseen the raid and had carefully fastened all doors and windows, but the forces of evil easily overcame those impediments...