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Furious French shelling of Germany's "land Gibraltar" at Istein, south anchor of the Westwall, and French flooding of the river valley south from Strasbourg with water from the Rhine-Rhône Canal last week, suggested one place whence Weygand was drawing man power for his effort-from the Burgundy Gap at the corner of Switzerland. Meantime, only some 85 of perhaps 250 German divisions were so engaged in Belgium. At any hour Mussolini might march. Regardless of dangers on other fronts, Weygand had to strip them of troops for the desperate battle in the north...
...dark eyes glistening with excitement, Egypt's young King Farouk sped last week to the Nile Delta. There, on the site of ancient Tanis, Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg had discovered the tomb of Psousennes I, second King of the 21st Dynasty (TIME, March 4). Last week, with Farouk watching, the professor opened Psousennes' silver mummy case...
...House of Commons heckled penitent Mr. Churchill a bit, but also it listened gladly to other statements with which he barraged his admissions. Members heard that he had just returned from a trip to France to persuade the French Navy to send its two speedy battle-cruisers, Dunkerque and Strasbourg (designed and built precisely to catch and destroy pocket battleships), out after Deutschland and Admiral Scheer. Reports from South Atlantic waters soon evidenced new activity by both French and British navies. Satisfied that they had something to chase, they were out in force scouring the seas, putting in here & there...
...chase the length of the Atlantic, where the Germans' fuel endurance at economical speeds would be superior and the British would have to stop and tank up. Only two other Allied ships which could take on the German raiders are the French Dunkerque and Strasbourg (30 knots), based at Brest...
...fought? . . . "Continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. Perhaps the day will come when France will begin to bombard Saarbrücken. German artillery will in turn lay Mulhouse in ruins. France will retaliate by bombarding Karlsruhe and Germany in her turn will shell Strasbourg. Then the French artillery will fire at Freiburg and the German at Colmar or Schlettstadt. Long-range guns will then be set up and from both sides will strike deeper and deeper and whatever cannot be reached by long-distance guns will be destroyed from the air. . . . One day there...