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...German High Command is a specialist in such information. TIME told no secrets which Britain's enemy did not know long...
...Ministry's belated story of how invasion was stiff-armed on Sept. 16 seemed timed to bolster public courage-and details of it came to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaver-brook's newspapers from "neutral" sources in Spain at just the right moment. A change in the command of the Home Fleet also well suited the emergency...
Gardner compared the election to the selection of a skipper to run a ship when it is certain that the ship is running into a storm. "The men who command must have the loyalty of the whole group which constitutes society," Gardner declared, stating that he considered Willkie to approach far nearer this ideal than Roosevelt...
...battered Londoners this was satisfying news. German claims that hospitals had been the chief targets received little sympathy. But to British strategists the attack was just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
Striking at Nazi troop and supply movements, the R. A. F. swooped over the German-held French port of Lorient, shattering two transports and killing 3,000 Nazi soldiers. Off Trondheim, Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command fired a German supply ship, set two more ablaze in the North...