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Government Help. Both were being taken. Some 3,000 mothers and children daily were moved out of London, dispersed in the safer countryside. Health Minister Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late Ramsay, called on 14 of the less heavily bombed boroughs of London last week to give shelter to 20,000 homeless from boroughs which have suffered more. In the swank West End many vacant homes and apartments were turned over to the poorest evacuees from grimy Limehouse and other East End slums. The once pro-Nazi Lord Redesdale, whose daughter the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford came home from...
...behalf of other Canadians who think it safer to remain unnamed...
...arrival at Dakar. What was their object? Did they intend to put down the swing to De Gaulle in French Equatorial Africa? Whatever they were up to, the British must have known or the French would not have passed unchallenged. And whatever it was, the British must have felt safer with the French ships out of the Mediterranean, where they might have been seized by the Axis...
...sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed Aug. 16, patches showed where bombs had struck but about 30 ships lay at berths handling cargo or making ready for sea. Officials admitted that as much traffic as possible had been diverted to safer ports in the west and north...
...German invasion of Britain by sea. But next to trawlers, destroyers have also suffered most from air bombings. Up to last week Britain had lost 23 of her pre-war fleet of 192 destroyers. The question that Navy men pondered was whether the U. S. might therefore be safer if it sold 50 of its old World War I destroyers (out of a fleet of 230) to help save Britain...