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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Charles Edison was never very happy either as Assistant Secretary or Secretary of the Navy. Mountains of paper work vexed and baffled him. So, occasionally, did admirals who were his nominal subordinates. They buffeted him from stem to stern when he proposed to tighten the Navy's loose organization, bucked like destroyers in a gale when he partially reorganized the shore bureaus to handle the enormous construction job now under way. And they practically keelhauled him (unofficially) when he came back from inspecting the Pacific Fleet last spring with word that "aircraft have a temporary advantage over ships...
...reckless brilliance of British seamanship, and the ability of the Royal Air Force to maintain local command of the air. The fifth surprise took place no one knew exactly when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients the ability of the R. A. F. to inflict devastating punishment on German daylight bomb ers and to upset German preparations for invasion across the Channel...
...Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush as an upstart...
...Berlin, officers said stiffly that "it has never been the practice of the German fighting forces to disturb the quiet of that holy day," and strongly implied that a spontaneous Christmas truce is possible this year at least in regard to German bombings. During World War I in various individual sectors of the Western Front there was often such spontaneous Christmas truce as the Pope last week thought well to mention. But a formal, negotiated 1940 Christmas truce was seemingly ruled out by Winston Churchill fortnight ago in the House of Commons. To a question from Laborite Thomas Ellis Naylor...
...thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...