Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Same time that the Germans were driven to wild night bombing, the British intensified their own night work. Last week they smashed repeatedly at Berlin and set gas works, rail yards, factories on fire. They reported the Berlin Central Post Office entirely gutted. Still not yielding to popular pressure for "total" attacks on German civilians, the R. A. F. continued to concentrate its bombs on selected military targets. At the same time, the British canceled their order to pilots to bring all bombs home if the specified target could not be found. For the first time since September...
...Survive. Persuading the rest of the world that Britain not only can "take it" but can live through it was placed high among Britain's immediate war aims last week by fighting Prime Minister Churchill. Snubbing a move in Parliament to have the Government restate its post-war aims, so as to reassure Europe's remaining small nations that Britain would be a better master than Germany, Mr. Churchill bluntly explained that, in the eyes of some people, Britain's very survival is in question. This was a grave new low in British fact-facing. It faced...
...promotion over 20 senior officers bears out the tradition that Britain's frigate captains of one war make her fighting admirals in the next. His latest post was in the Mediterranean as No. 2 to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, whose recent exploits have been strong tonic to Prime Minister Churchill and the entire nation. The Dakar fiasco, after which Mr. Churchill mentioned "accidents and some errors . . . disciplinary action," afforded excuse for a high command shakeup and it was wholly probable that Sir Charles Forbes took the rap for his underlings...
...copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...
Last week for the first time in six months CBS's short-wave listening post picked up a newscast aired by the celebrated German Freiheitsender-the secret "Freedom Station" the Nazis have repeatedly tried to suppress. Giving no location, announcing simply that his program was "Germany Speaking," the Freiheitsender commentator, who may have been speaking from Switzerland, mocked Göring on the failure of his second four-year plan, which ended last week, contended Hitler had overrun Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France because ersatz food and gasoline had failed him, declared the only...