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...honor of the French naval tradition. It is also axiomatic that the opinion of the French Navy's seamen is so doubtful that they might mutiny against any orders to fight Britain. At any rate, the Admiral of the French Fleet today loathes the British. Of Dunkirk he has recently said: "That was glorious. I also remember Oran. That was shameful." Of the British blockade he has said: "Germans are more generous and more understanding of the needs of humanity than the English." And the Admiral still has a Navy to command. According to estimates: By British action...
...Muselier (now an ardent De Gaullist) cabled him: "You are renouncing the whole of the French naval policy dating back to the 18th Century and abandoning the sovereign rights of France." In 1939 fluently English-speaking Admiral Darlan reviewed the British Reserve Fleet at Portland with King George. After Dunkirk, King George gave Darlan a special decoration for the evacuation, although Darlan had not been there. But after the Armistice, when he became Vichy's Minister of Marine, Darlan's viewpoint on the British underwent a change...
...opinion that the Battle of the Atlantic was Britain's most crucial struggle. It also shed some interesting new light on the trend of that battle. This loss of almost half a million tons was terrific. The month was the third worst after June 1940, the month of Dunkirk (533,902 tons) and March 1941 (489,229 tons). Later revisions would probably put April above March and into second place...
Head of the Paris bureau of the Chicago Tribune when the war broke out, he returned to the U.S. soon after Dunkirk, after twelve years in Europe. Since then he has made a series of U.S. lecture tours, To his stranger's eyes the U.S. had many symptoms of the political disease which he had seen destroy France...
World War II, Dunkirk, the capitulation of the Belgians-all, according to More About Nostradamus, were foretold. But the quatrain which heartened last week's cinemagoers most was the final one: "At last the two leaders shall be disjointed by the hunt, by a humane rule of Anglican breed, the daughter of the English Isles shall re-establish unity, justice, shall lock war within its bars." Interpretation: The U.S. will win World...