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Coveted Fleet. The challenge of the Axis to Allied sea power focused the world's attention on the French Fleet, because, so nearly equal are Allied & Axis Navies, the weight of that fleet-the battleships Richelieu, Dunkerque, Strasbourg, Provence, the 14 French cruisers, 42 destroyers, 59 submarines-will tip the balance of world sea power. Last week the German press declared that France's greatest ships were in battle trim, "ready for any eventuality...
...Occupied France, especially Brittany, Catholics are taking a strong stand against the conquerors. The Bishop of Quimper's sermons have denounced the Nazis steadily since the fall of France. In former Alsace-Lorraine, the Bishop of Strasbourg and Bishop of Metz have been forcibly retired for noncollaboration. In Unoccupied France, the hierarchy has solved the thorny problem of getting along with Vichy and at the same time preventing Petain from using Catholic groups as the social prop for his regime by keeping out of politics. Said the Bishop of Montauban: "We can naturally not collaborate when this involves...
...pleasing to the Coastal Command of the R.A.F., for previously all the spectacular British torpedo-bombing had been done by the Fleet Air Arm with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane Bristol Beauforts, clean as whistles...
...attempt to invade England and the Italian reverses in Greece and Libya mark the turning point of the war." Free Frenchman General Charles de Gaulle: "With the Hun in Paris, Bordeaux. Lille, Reims and Strasbourg, and with the Italians pretending to dictate their will to the French nation, there is nothing else to do but fight. ... To treat with the enemies, to accept their control, to cooperate with them, is to betray the fatherland...
...voices one finds among the members of a fine string-quartet, and you will not tire of the chamber flavor as you might the brilliance of a larger chorus. Also in the line of vocal music are the ancient French carols sung on a single Columbia Record by the Strasbourg Cathedral Choir, music more of the folk quality than the Bach chorales, but of a similar fresh spirit, in its own way just as delightful. The much larger choir of the cathedral gives a-clear, pleasantly echoey rendition, not one, however, to compare with that of the Trapps...