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...those long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon the same wind which might have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away a blockading fleet. There is always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many continental tyrants...
...landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World, with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue...
...first moderate voice raised last week was that of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, the old hero of Zeebrugge and British special attache to King Leopold, who was with him up to the hour of surrender. Said he: "I trust that judgment will be suspended on a very gallant soldier until all the facts are known." Prime Minister Churchill agreed...
...sale of beer and light wines in all German-Canadian clubs; from Vernon, B. C. came reports of the bombing of a Canadian Legion Hall; in East York one thoroughly aroused businessman, offering the Veterans' Home Guard his full cooperation, put at their disposal his entire fleet of 30 milk trucks...
White-haired, white-mustached Editor in Chief Olympe Gilbart, 65, made a bold decision. Rather than face the German invader again, he shepherded 50 members of his staff, their wives and children, into a fleet of five automobiles, two trucks, smashed La Meuse's plant, set out for Brussels...