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...trial at all for well-bred Britons to keep a stiff upper lip all the way through Dunkirk, the Blitz and Suez. But through eight straight losses to the U.S. in the Walker Cup-now really, chaps, that was a bit much to ask. Englishmen take their golf seriously; after all, they practically invented the game. Actually, it was the Scots-but surely the Empire still stretches that...
...Harold Edmund Franklyn, 77, commander of Britain's beleaguered 5th Division in France in 1940. whose gallant attack with his badly outnumbered forces at Arras so alarmed the German High Command that it delayed the Nazi advance, thereby giving the British 24 extra hours during the retreat to Dunkirk; of a heart attack; in Newbury, Berkshire...
...last 400 years, including Philip of Spain, Louis XIV, Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler." The Daily Mirror noted that Britain had been "written off" by another American in 1940 - "the rich, fainthearted Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the days of Dunkirk." The Manchester Guardian was less imperious -and more candid: "A former American Secretary of State who looks like an Englishman, but who happens to be a foreigner, voiced opinions which Englishmen only admit in the privacy of their clubs...
...France's Usinor steel company is building Europe's largest steel mill near Dunkirk. This, and modernization of other mills, will give France a capacity of 27 million tons by 1965, of which 25% will be produced in the latest oxygen-type furnaces...
...London Daily Mirror, a stout Fleet Street lord who held British journalism "too niminy piminy" and so transformed a dowager's daily into the world's first picture tabloid and still largest daily newspaper (circ. 4,593,263) by a blend of strident headlines (on Dunkirk's evacuation: BLOODY MARVELLOUS). cartoon strips and pro-Labor politics; of heart disease; in Camberley, England...