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Aboard the Victory, off Cadiz, on Oct. 9, 1805, Lord Nelson issued his Memorandum for the decisive battle that was to be fought twelve days later off Cape Trafalgar. The great Admiral warned his commanders to keep to their line of battle, then added a word of historic advice...
...Labor Party leader, the Home Secretary could not fail to note other phenomena. The Communist Party's paying membership jumped from 20,000 in January to 53,000 in June. Londoners, with vehement regularity, jammed Trafalgar Square, 30,000 strong, to approve demands for a second front and revival of the Worker. The Labor Party voted a resolution against the ban. One after another, unions of miners, railwaymen, textile workers, locomotive drivers and journalists cried for the Worker...
...large amount of Navy thinking in the past-by Secretary Knox as well as the admirals-has been built on the Jutland-Trafalgar tradition of great fleet battles, meeting enemy line to line in a great slugging match. But sea battles are now fought by aircraft while the fleets lie over the horizon (cf. Coral Sea and Midway) and the fleet's main job is to keep the sea lanes open...
Within a Year. Another second-front mass rally was held in Trafalgar Square; 60,000 attended. Editor William Rust of the Daily Worker read a message from 500,000 C.I.O. workers, another ("What are we waiting for?") from onetime Cockney Charlie Chaplin. The small but vocal Communist Party, which hitherto has stuck by the Churchill all-out war policy, scattered second-front leaflets and chalked up signs all over London. A workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King...
Relations between U.S. and British and other Allied forces are most excellent in London. They amiably crowd the same corner pubs, complain about prices at the Savoy and Ritz, jostle each other in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. In Hyde Park, baseball and softball games are now an evening institution. British civilians gather enthusiastically, but do not understand the game and cheer in the wrong places...