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...possibility. If Britain should be conquered in a swift invasion lasting only three or four weeks, its morale might collapse as completely as that of France. In that event Winston Churchill might find himself out, like Paul Reynaud in France, and Churchill's promise never to surrender the fleet might be forgotten as quickly as Reynaud's similar promises...
...first time it embraced the U. S. as well as Britain and France. For a complex of reasons, Japan had been treating the U. S. with gingerly respect. The Japanese went on the theory that their No. 1 customer was always right; that the U. S. fleet, though comparatively impotent west of Hawaii, could nevertheless do severe damage to the Imperial Fleet; that a country which prevented Japanese from immigrating must somehow be superior. Last week's abandonment of reverence for the U. S., and the intensification of the pressure on Britain and France, were direct results not only...
...Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander in Chief of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria, these casualty admissions were welcome news, for his view and version of the Ionian Sea encounter differed widely from the Italian. To make a sweep along the Italian south coast at a moment when the Italians might suppose him preoccupied with disarming surrendered French units at Alexandria, Sir Andrew took his squadron, led by his flagship, the War spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural...
...more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba, under the guns of Spain's bottled-up fleet...
Last week the Italians boasted loudly of mighty sea deeds against the Royal Navy, but the British chuckled at them, called them liars who had only won a "boat race" of which the goal was the Italian Fleet's home ports...