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World War II: After serving most of the years between world wars in North Africa under Marshal Lyautey, took command of the French 15th Motorized Division in Belgium, helped cover the Allied retreat to Dunkirk, was surrounded by Hitler's panzers, fought until his division ran out of ammunition, was finally taken prisoner. Held in the fortress of Königstein (from which General Henri Giraud escaped) until July 1941, when the Germans released him in the belief that he would help Vichy defend its territory against Anglo-American attack. Took command of Vichy forces in North Africa...
Norman Barlow, a veteran of Dunkirk and the Italian campaigns, and a graduate of Kings College and the Institute of Slavonic Studies, was primarily concerned with what he termed "the pragmatic aspects" of Britain's foreign policy...
...December 1949, the 7,836-ton Empire Marshal put out from London to pick up war materials at French ports for hard-pressed French soldiers fighting Communists in Indo-China. At Dunkirk, Communist dockers refused to load the ship. Propaganda leaflets, mysteriously appearing in the crew's quarters, read: "Young Frenchmen are killed every day far from their homes and country in this criminal colonial war because American imperialists want to use Indo-China as a strong point against Free China and Soviet Russia...
...rocking chair in the middle of a flatcar, a jug of hard cider close at hand, "to enjoy the fine country." Along with U.S. President Millard Fillmore and 298 others, Webster was making the inaugural run over the New York & Erie's 446-mile track to Dunkirk, N.Y., on Lake Erie, thus linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. To Daniel Webster, the Erie was a "great work...
...blasts against the "slaughter" in Korea. Last week "Bazy" Miller fired a broadside all her own. Across two columns of Page One, she spread a letter from an anonymous "soldier-husband" to his wife that told a chilling story of the "horror that was the Hungnam evacuation-the American Dunkirk...