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...Announcing that the German air fleet was superior to combined fleets of U. S., Britain, and France...
...Falkland Islands. Her funnels riddled, her sides repainted but still scarred by shells from the Admiral Graf Spee, she tied up at Devonport alongside her comrade in action, the Ajax (third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made a stirring speech in which he invoked the shades of Drake and Raleigh, praised the action as "a flash of light and color" in an otherwise drab war, prophesied that it "will long...
...Urging a two-ocean fleet...
LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...
...joined up with the Finns, according to Sir Walter Citrine. Of these, about 5,500 are Swedes, 1,000 Norwegians, 600 Danes, and the rest Frenchmen, Dutch men, Belgians, Poles, Americans, a few Estonians who crossed the Gulf of Finland in fishing boats under the nose of the Russian fleet...