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...illusion for people to believe that in the end the British Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet designed to protect the British Commonwealth to a power which could not use it for that belligerent purpose, there would be little left over for you. ... I am not concerned today to attempt to tell you what you should do in this grave matter. That is your business. But I am concerned...
...appease the dictators, he kicked Sir Robert upstairs from his post as Permanent Under Secretary to a vague something called Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Winston Churchill brought him downstairs again as one of his key advisers. Last week, as the French colonial armies and fleet joined the Petain Government in surrender (see p. 32) 59-year-old Sir Robert could no longer contain his sorrow. He expressed it, as many an Englishman would, in a letter to the London Times. The letter was a poem whose title embraced the years of the Entente Cordiale...
...make doubly sure of IndoChina's good faith, part of Japan's South China Fleet formed a ring around the port of Haiphong "to watch for the time being." Troops billeted on Nanning closed in on the Indo-Chinese border, and fresh forces were concentrated on Hainan Island...
...kept to itself. But the British east coast, from Berwick-on-Tweed on the Scottish border around to Hastings on the Channel, where William the Conqueror conquered, was proclaimed a defense zone and its inhabitants packed up. Britain's bathing beaches became a barbed-wire front. A huge fleet of fishing craft to transport troops in small groups was reported being assembled by the Germans along the Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts...
STARS ON THE SEA-F. van Wyck Mason-Lippincotf ($2.75). The season's most successful costume fiction and plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has the prettiest ear extant for racy Colonial speech; his sense of character is lively, though it is closer to The American Boy than to perfection; his yarns are rattling good, and if anyone wants to see where the romantic conception of an Indian fighter has got to in the last...