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...each new international bridge, call attention to the 3,897 miles of U. S. Canadian frontier that have no fortifications whatsoever. New U. S.-Canadian relations involve staggering possibilities: that the seat of the British Empire might be moved to Ottawa if Britain should be overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which case unfortified bridges and boundaries would comfort neither U. S. citizens nor Canadians. Smooth Mr. Moffat raised no such grim prospects. Quizzed over the phone by a Toronto newspaper...
Banse Plan. In an invasion the German Air Force would have the task of razing the naval bases at Harwich, Sheerness, Chatham, Ramsgate, Dover, Portsmouth, Southampton, Cowes, Plymouth (see map, p. 18), Britain's Fleet air arm. Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force, and anti-aircraft batteries would have to protect Britain's naval bases as best they could. Last week's preliminary Nazi bombings in Essex and Yorkshire were possibly to test and spot these defenses. German coastal cannon planted at Calais, Cap Gris Nez. Boulogne might aid in trying to reduce the British bases...
...mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test of vigilance and daring that night and the next dawn, when the transports and their German naval and air escorts set out on William the Conqueror's path...
Last week Max had a shock. Believing that his entry into the Cabinet would provoke storms of protest from his countless enemies, he was touched when Britons responded to his appointment with loud applause. Even Baron Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...
...largest banks (Javasche Bank. Neder-landsche Handel Mij., Nederlandsche In-dische Escompto Mij. and Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank). There also have moved the headquarters of the two larg est steamship companies (Rotterdamsche Lloyd and Stoomvaart Nederland) in the Indies trade. In London, Manhattan and Batavia, operators of the Dutch fleet of 1,500 merchantmen have already set up joint offices and Dutch shipping is doing business as usual, except that Holland ports have been dropped from call, except that in war zones its ships join Allied convoys. Up to the time Germany invaded the Low Countries, Holland had lost more merchantmen...