Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...death rate among their pilots may be so suicidal that mass dive-bombing will be undertaken only against such targets as last week's Junkers sighted, moving westerly off Norway: a troopship convoy escorted by warships, including "a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class ... a cruiser of the York class...
...heavy cruiser of the York class was hit by two bombs and set afire. The ship sank within 30 minutes following many explosions...
After an interval long enough for the Allied troopship convoy to reach Great Britain, the British Admiralty tersely stated: "The German claim to have sunk a British battleship and a cruiser of the York class in operations off Namsos is untrue." Next day the Admiralty announced that no troopship had been touched, but that the "Stukas," diving wave after wave, did sink the heavy destroyer Afridi. The French Admiralty announced that their destroyer Bison was sunk in the same attack. The Poles in London verified the loss of their destroyer Grom off Narvik...
...trial brought into the open opposing working-class attitudes toward the war. The Worker's attorney, Denis Nowell Pritt, was recently expelled from the Labor Party for his anti-war views. "Have you ever considered," he asked Sir Walter, "whether there is any alternative to carrying on this war to a bitter conclusion...
...Matthew Vassar last week revisited his campus at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., he would have found its future mothers, in bare legs and short skirts, pedaling bicycles to class, would have heard them sing...