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...words had a more current historical meaning. They meant that France was again aspiring to her traditional role as a road block to invasions from the east of Europe's Atlantic seaboard. Her Army was embryonic, her Navy was all but destroyed, but armies and navies can be rebuilt. Above all, France was still the world's No. 2 land empire. The power that supported her claims might gain a potentially valuable ally...
...Roen. The deal: if he could raise the ship, he could have her; if not, he must chop her off at his own expense to allow 35 feet of clear water over her. Roen took the gamble: by spending $300,000 he might get a hulk that could be rebuilt into a $1,000,000 ship...
...Navy plans to reconvert the French liner Normandie (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) into a military vessel were abandoned last spring. She is now lying idle in an unnamed U.S. port. Best guess: the hulk will be turned back to the French after the war, possibly to be rebuilt as a peacetime luxury liner...
About a quarter of London will have to be rebuilt after the war. Bombs (Blitz I) and robombs (Blitz II) have left few streets in the world's largest city without ruins or cratered lots, few buildings undamaged. Last week Reconstruction Minister Lord Woolton totted up the damage...
...Rebuilt in 1928 by U. S. subscription...