Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) re-entered the Government as Lord Privy Seal. A benevolent old pirate with indefatigable asthma, he is contemptuous of anyone who does not admire Churchill's Britain, Stalin's Russia, the U.S. and its women, folk songs, gangster movies. "The Beaver" has led the cry for a second front in Britain, does not beg when he differs with Crony Winston-something the Prime Minister appreciates. Commented London's Daily Mirror: "Mr. Churchill has brought over to his side again the most persistent critic of the Government...
Viscount Cranborne (Robert Cecil), Leader of the House of Lords, became Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, a position he held from 1940 to 1942, when he became Lord Privy Seal. Cranborne lives at Cranborne, where he raises roses rare and magnificent, plays a smacking croquet game called "golf," collects Low cartoons (see p. 38), talks good British politics. He resigned with Anthony Eden over Britain's appeasement of Italy in 1938, is impersonally competent...
...there was many a sign that Malinovsky's fast-moving army might yet swerve south to help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
This new invasion currency is not the same as "spearhead" bank notes, so called because they were first used in North Africa to pay the U.S. troops which formed the "spearhead" of invading forces. Similar to ordinary U.S. dollars (except for a gold instead of a blue seal), spearhead money is backed by the U.S. Treasury, is negotiable in the U.S., is permanent money by all currency laws. On the other hand, invasion money is not intended to be permanent in Sicily (or any other country where it may later be used). It is only a kind of monetary crutch...
...Japs, well knowing that loss of the commanding ridges above Salamaua would seal its doom, fought desperately. To counter the Allied guns they had a few 75-mm. and 6-in. guns, but for the most part relied on their bombproof burrows, mortars and machine guns...