Word: channelize
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...Army & Navy Register came out and stated bluntly: ". . . The French were supposed to take care of the ground operations, while the Royal Air Force of Great Britain was to handle those pertaining to the air. The sudden threat against the Channel ports and the island itself has compelled the British to hold the bulk of her air power in reserve to stem the tide of invasion. ..." When this was written, it was not known for sure that Germany would try to crush France before invading Great Britain...
Their U-boats, one of which was sunk, and motor launches took their toll of the vast [cross-channel] traffic which now began. For four or five days the intense struggle raged. All armored divisions, or what was left of them, together with great masses of German infantry and artillery, hurled themselves on the ever narrowing and contracting appendix within which the British and French Armies fought...
...whole of the Channel ports are in his hands, with all the strategic consequences that follow from that, and we must expect another blow to be struck almost immediately at us or at France...
...will observe, never been a period in all those long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon the same wind which might have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away a blockading fleet. There is always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many continental tyrants...
...implacable end . . . the greatest famine in history." Foreign experts of the Department of Agriculture reached pretty much the same conclusion. The blockade by Allied men-of-war, tightened rather than weakened by Nazi gains in Scandinavia and the Low Countries, taxed the stamina of Central Europe. As additional Channel ports fell into Nazi hands the prospect of a severe counter-blockade by Nazi U-boats and planes threatened Great Britain. >Germany expected to loot enough to eat till autumn, hoped by then to have conquered enough more to master next winter's problem. Otherwise the Nazis looked...