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This was not another Dunkirk. At Dunkirk a British Army which had been ingloriously outmaneuvered and beaten without pitched battle, escaped after abandoning its tanks, its artillery, its ammunition dumps, even its rifles...
Morale. The Germans had another victory, perhaps dampened by their losses. The British had had their worst shock since Dunkirk. But neither may have as much effect on the fortunes of the war as the encouragement which the German victory gave Spain and Vichy to aid the Axis, as the alarm which may lead Turkey to give in instead of fighting...
Having spotted numerous British transports, and proceeding to bomb many of them in Peiraeus and off Chalchis, the Germans accused the British of planning another Dunkirk. "Pay close attention to your ports," they urged the Greeks, "because when British transports come for a second time-empty-it is high time to capitulate." This week the Germans claimed they had bombed and sunk five British transports which were trying to evacuate troops...
Married. Ethel Woodward, socialite daughter of Banker-Sportsman William Woodward, owner of three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown); and Philippe de Croisset, veteran of Dunkirk, son of the late Parisian Playwright François de Croisset; in Manhattan...
Main part of the narrative is the classical setup for all war fiction from worst to best: a soldier, a girl, the soldier's friend. The girl, Prudence, is upper-class, erving in the W.A.A.F. Clive, on leave after Dunkirk, is an intelligent, self-educated Yorkshireman of the working lass. They meet, spar, land in a haystack, any their uneasy affair to a vacant hotel in a south-coast resort. There, in a much more profuse and coarse-grained way, they settle down to the business of A Farewell to Arms: bedding, drinking, eating, quareling, comedy, conversation. Prudence...