Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historically it is of record that the tunnel project, first officially embodied in the Anglo-French protocol of May 3, 1875, has repeatedly been blocked by British fear of a subaqueous invasion, and the Englishman's jealous love of his "splendid isolation." Today however even the most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last...
...view of the present wide public interest in the tunnel project the government has come to the conclusion that the time is ripe for a comprehensive reexamination of the question. We are anxious that a very thorough consideration should be made of the economic aspects of the matter in order that these may be weighed with imperial defence considerations and a decision reached on broad grounds of national policy." (See Parliament's Week...
Paris buzzed with comment. Within 48 hours, members of the Comite Francais du Tunnel sous la Manche, originally chartered in 1875, met in bustling session. Since new blood was obviously needed after half a century of stagnation, the Comite called in and elected as their president kinetic M. Yves Le Trocquer, recently French Minister of Public Works (1920-25). As Vice President they chose M. Jules Cambon, distinguished statesman and brother of beloved Paul Cambon (1843-1524) who was for 22 years French Ambassador to His Britannic Majesty. When the Committee adjourned to banquet, Jules Cambon, raised a sparkling glass...
Later in the day French Tunnel President Yves Le Trocquer cried happily to correspondents: "Absolutely everything on the French side is ready! This time our British friends seem clearly to favor realization of the project. Only one thing remains : that is, for the British government to create as rapidly as possible an association for the construction and exploitation of the tunnel from that...
Displaying blue prints and statistics proudly, M. Le Trocquer confidently stated that a double-track tunnel can be built in six years at a cost of three billion francs ($117,000,000) and would with the greatest ease earn 6%. Concluded M. Le President Le Trocquer: "With the tunnel in operation Paris and London will be only five hours apart...