Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hopping-off place for Graziani's attack is Tobruch, Italy's coastal base near the Egyptian border, protected by nearby air bases at El Aden and El Gubbi. These three spots have been targets for incessant British air raids, to prevent an expeditionary force from getting organized. Last week torpedo-carrying Fairey Swordfish planes of the Naval Air Service climaxed these attacks by striking transports, supply ships and a tanker in Tobruch harbor...
...armored trucks stung the Italians, just after Balbo's death, into attempting a Blitzkrieg drive with a mechanized column of more than 1,000 men on the fortified British coastal base of Sollum, 75 miles east of Tobruch. The British broke up this effort with a flanking attack, and the survivors took refuge in the deserted adobe Fort Capuzzo. There they still were after a thirsty week, sucking stones to eke out their water supply, which the British cut off by removing many sections of the pipeline down from Bardia. British artillery, pounding their defenses, drove them into trenches...
...wondered: When? The monstrous irony of last week's waiting was the way waiting Britons had to fight their own Government in defense of the same liberties which Germany threatened. A people's revolt, reflected in both Parliament and press, singled out two Cabinet members for special attack...
...even after his tumble into the Nazi camp, has in general been favorable to British and Russian interests. He had a good reason: the Entente served as a check on Bulgaria, which wants the Rumanian province of Dobruja. Hungary, which covets Rumanian Transylvania, last week opened a screaming press attack on Rumania because of Carol's "shifty" policy toward the Axis, to which Hungary clings. Finally, Russia handed King Carol a note stressing the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Having grabbed Bessarabia and Bucovina, Russia wants only that vague thing which she calls security, in the name...
...last week, resolutely maintained its determination to defend itself from British protection as well as Nazi invasion. Irish politicos had reached the point of admitting fear of assault from the Continent. Declared Minister for Supplies Sean Lemass: "We must prepare for the worst and prepare quickly. In case of attack the Government might be put out of action." But Eire continued to fear the British Tommies as much as the German airmen, independently went ahead on its own. Meantime, across the border in Northern Ireland, Tommies massed anyway, ready to jump on Nazi invaders or uprising nationalists...