Word: fleetly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Coordinator of the French West Indies, was still in control of the island of Martinique. French colonial troops went on drilling in tropical heat. French warships lay in the big harbor of Fort-de-France. But island exports of rum, bananas, sugar, pineapples had all but stopped. A British fleet of unknown size patrolled the nearby waters-carefully avoiding the appearance of a blockade, making certain that French warships would not streak for home, watching for signs of a Nazi attempt to establish a submarine base on the island. Somewhere nearby, destroyers of the U.S. neutrality patrol also hovered watchfully...
...courses left to U. S. foreign policy, said Streit, were: to give the British up as lost, thus abandon the U. S.'s first line of defense; to give all aid short of war, or go to war (neither of which courses held any insurance that the British fleet would not be surrendered, turned against the U. S.). The U. S., said Streit, must offer Britain the hope that lay in Union Now with the U. S. Union gave the 13 colonies the courage to fight tyranny in 1776. "We face now not George III but Adolf...
...Africa, and New Zealand. This body alone 'would have the power to declare war or peace. "The British Cabinet . . . could no more surrender the naval or other armed forces than the Government of New York can surrender any of the armed forces of the American Union." The British fleet would be secured against surrender and united with the U.S. fleet to rule the Seven Seas, even though England and Ireland were invaded, crushed...
...Decision. Having waited nearly two weeks for the French Navy either to close ranks against the Axis or to place itself beyond Axis reach, the Royal Navy had been ordered to act decisively. Had the French Fleet surrendered, the Axis Navy-of German, Italian and French ships-would have been more than a match for the British Fleet. As her life depended on it, Britain could not allow that to happen...
Equally informal was BBC's flash to the children on the fate of the French Fleet. Said the announcer: "It's not a thing about which one likes to say very much. The French Fleet had to be taken under our control to prevent it falling into German hands or else we had to trust Hitler's word that it wouldn't be used against us-and who could do that nowadays...