Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sights of Washington: Captain Vivian Cornelius, the handsome Britisher who was wounded during the evacuation of Dunkirk and who has caused "heart attacks" to several Washington society ladies...
Piper Woolley is never quite sure how he came by all of them. He started with two: the son and daughter of a League of Nations official and his wife. After Dunkirk he agreed, with the massive reluctance of a club-bound, child-hating Englishman, to take them to England while their parents returned to Geneva...
...Until Dunkirk Mary Welsh was the only woman war correspondent with the R.A.F. in France, and before that she was at Munich and in the Sudetenland when Hitler's troops marched over the border. She was working for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express then-but when the Nazi tanks rumbled into Paris she lit out two jumps ahead, got through to London, and took a job on trial with TIME. Six weeks later Bureau Chief Walter Graebner called her "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London." And Graebner does not toss bouquets around...
Britons of all political complexions, tensely watching the grim news from Russia, read a London Evening Standard editorial that put their hopes into plangent words. Author was the Standard's crusading young Editor Michael Foot, 27, whose book, Guilty Men, caused an uproar in Britain just after Dunkirk. Excerpts...
Have we the ships? Aye, there's the rub. Well, we had ships to take 950,000 men to the Middle East, ships to capture Madagascar, ships to take huge convoys to India, ships to transport supplies to Russia, ships to save an army from Dunkirk, ships to keep this nation the best fed in Europe. Ships do not lie idle. They must be employed according to a rigid rule of priority. Suppose the Second Front became Number 1 priority. Perhaps then the greatest seafaring nation the world has ever seen would be unable to find the ships...