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...arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either. After two weeks in Poland, the Germans had crossed the Vistula and were within seven days of victory. After two weeks in the Lowlands, they had reached the sea, were about to shove the British into it at Dunkirk. After two weeks in the Balkans they had taken Belgrade and put the British to rout. But after traveling 250 miles in the first Russian week and 100 in the second, the Germans had not done much more than push the Russians behind their old borders. After two bitter weeks they...
...Deal isolationism if he came to believe Britain's cause hopeless has seeped underground in Washington for a long time. It flourished among New Dealers even during periods when the President, being assailed as a warmonger, was damning isolationism. They chattered that: 1) the President decided after Dunkirk that Britain could not win; 2) if Britain falls, the U.S. will painlessly acquire most of the British Empire, will be strong enough - with its defense program finished and the rest of the world exhausted - to defend...
...loss in Empire personnel was also grim-proportionately far greater than at Dunkirk or Greece. Here the "known loss" was 15,000 men, against 17,000 evacuated, nearly 50% (at Dunkirk losses were 12%, in Greece 25%). Winston Churchill, as a palliative to rising British anger over Crete (see p. 24), estimated that the Germans had lost 17,000 men. But the German High Command, whose claims if not admissions have usually proved unfailingly accurate, last week admitted losing only 5,893 men (1,353 killed, 2,621 missing, 1,919 wounded). Of these admitted casualties...
...other documentaries, except a few which use professional actors to play a specific incident (e.g., a re-enacted journey to Dunkirk and back in a small motor-boat), faithfully follow the method of Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...
When World War II began, John Grierson was in Ottawa making documentaries for Canada. In England his trained colleagues were turning out some 50 documentaries yearly. When the Government awoke from the cold shower of Dunkirk, it set these Grierson-trained technicians to making war documentaries. Soon the Ministry of Information was supplying every British cinemansion with at least one picture a week...