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Imperial troops west of Tobruk were almost certain that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would resume the offensive. R.A.F. reconnaissance planes reported German tanks and infantry moving up the coast to the front at Ain-et-Tmimi. Patrols met the stiffest resistance in weeks...
...call the "Winston Crisis." He gave his fast-multiplying number of critics some of the action they had been asking for. To those who said that his Cabinet was too stupid or too stiffly Tory, or both, he responded with a general Cabinet reshuffle in which some of the stiffest Tories went out of the window and Britain's most eminent Socialist, Sir Stafford Cripps, came boldly in the front door...
...firm hand of the British Empire clamped definitely this week around the neck of one of her stiffest-necked subjects. Somewhere in the Empire, perhaps in Cairo, perhaps in the Far East, Premier U Maung Saw of Burma was fussing and fuming under detention...
...less than 20 minutes the attackers had taken Butch. In due course Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. Tiger, the stiffest of the four, was assigned to a famous Scottish regiment. It went into battle to a sound it loved-its pipe major, who had not been allowed to skirl his bagpipes in Tobruk, played...
Belgium. Disregarding the "humane motives" which prompted a Belgian family to harbor a grounded R.A.F. pilot in their home, a German military court gave the tip-off on growing Nazi apprehension by ordering one of the stiffest sentences since the occupation: death to the man, 70; his wife, 68; their daughter...