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...waves of the ocean would be the waves of German bombers-heavy, light and dive-which would precede the sea ferries and air-troop transports. Professor Banse long ago recommended Norfolk-Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
...paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion was a pack of inflammatory British lies. The Swedes, with a two-week-old guarantee from Hitler in their pocket, promptly blacked out their whole country for the first time, worriedly sifted rumors of German troop-shifts at nearby Kiel...
...missed the bus." Up jumped the bewigged Speaker of the House to plead for order. Thereafter, for 57 minutes the Prime Minister droned on, protesting that Trondheim was not comparable to Gallipoli, explaining that the failure in Norway was caused by lack of airdromes and the speed of German troop movements, defending his leadership as an effort to "steer a middle course." Only once did he draw hearty cheers from his supporters, with a warning which later events proved to have been remarkably foresighted...
Song of the Road (Stellar Productions). During World War I Scottish Comedian Harry Lauder, 47, arrived in Manhattan and, with a troop of skirling, skirted bagpipers, raised the U. S. martial temper by stamping around with his crooked stick, singing We A' Go Hame the Same Way, The Wee Hoose 'mang the Heather. Last week, No. 35 of World War II, Sir Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price...
...attempts to smoke him out by pleading the necessity of secrecy, Prime Minister Chamberlain finally delivered a sketchy "interim" report to a sullen, worried House of Commons. Stripping the speech of reassuring forensic shocks, stupefied M. P.s learned: 1) that although aware "for many months" of German transport and troop accumulations at Baltic ports, the Allies were unprepared for a northern Nazi thrust, the troops assembled for aiding Finland having been dispersed; 2) that the mining of the Norwegian waters on April 8 coincided purely by "curious chance" with the Nazi coup; 3) that although the Nazis invaded Denmark...