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Pips & Crowns. Richard Ennis, with serious war in Dunkirk and Crete behind him, has been posted to the Rock. He is a foul-up sergeant in the Army Vocational and Cultural Corps, lecturing to monoglot Italian P.O.W.s, illiterate dockers and military no-hope types who are detailed to educational "parades" because nothing useful can be found for them to do. The Rock is not designed to sustain human life; it is a "chunk of strategic geology." It has escaped Axis capture only because-the bitter story goes-an American insurance company did not want its corporate symbol compromised. The Rock...
...resulting scramble was like Dunkirk in miniature. Despite ten-foot waves in the Straits, Castro officials were climbing all over the boatmen, prodding them on their way. "I told them my boat just couldn't make it," reported one exile, "but they said, 'You have the green light-go.' " Out on the open sea, the exile's cabin cruiser began taking water; a U.S. Coast Guard cutter hovering near by had to rescue everyone aboard. In all, the Coast Guard picked up more than 100 Cubans from a dozen boats swamped by the rough seas...
Already perceiving some of the problems posed by a potential flood of 50,000-200,000 refugees, Johnson has asked Congress for 12.6 million dollars to conduct an "orderly systematic immigration" of the Cubans. Also, he has asked Castro to discourage (instead of encourgaging) a Dunkirk-like exodus which would violate U.S. immigration rules and health code. But these assuage merely superficial difficulties of transportation and processing...
...Germans are scurrying to catch up with other European steelmen; sea side plants already account for nearly 20% of the Common Market's steel production. France's Usinor opened a 1,500,000-ton mill at Dunkirk in 1963, and a consortium of Belgian and Luxembourg firms is busy building a 1,500,000-ton plant on the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. Even Portugal has put up an efficient small works on the water at Seixal...
...credit concessions to exporters, reorganization of the dock industry and, in some cases, like steel, immediate nationalization. To eliminate the deficit, Lord Cromer warned last week, Britain must revitalize her entire economy. The three billion dollar rescue that saved the pound in November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presages swift victory...