... Battle for France—Reynaud's words—goes on. Hitler thought it would be another Sedan—the sort of victory he expected to win in Flanders last month when Leopold ratted and everything looked black for us. He has been disappointed. Paying in Vain Don't count the ...

... already in Egypt. Aged 50. he was Commander-in-Chief British forces in Burma and commanded the B.E.F. during the Dunkirk evacuation. He and a naval officer were the last to leave the beach. COMMANDER AT ES An Iri , hman. he was one of the origin:llor. ...

... Shettleston. Glasgow, in succession to J. Cheetham. Mr. 'wry& in the Roval Engineers in France and Flanders. and had a pretty rough ii me during the evacuation. ...

... fact we value them 80 much that we consider them worth preserving; and appreciating what our young men have experienced in Flanders and Prance, and l epe will have to endure in the future, we feel !that, at home. personal Inconveniences 'should not deter ...

... HIM IN THE GREAT This is excellent thing to veal self amid the shells and carnage of TASK OH WHICH THE MEN i vse remember Flanders, of Trance, of the sea, and ENGLAND ARE NOW SET The writer of Silvei Linings of the air. has contributed a special saying ...

... remaining in Belgium, except those who could evacuated across the Channel, would have to surrender or die When Leopold left Gorl had given an undertaking to fight long as possible to protect the evacuation. Whatever was said of Leopold afterwards, he ...

... the French Government had perfected plans for evacuation, if need be. Is a military dictatorship? I heard. Our own schemes for evacuation were ready before the war. Not only were civil servants evacuated wholesale, but it was decided in what provincial ...

... material from officers and men who took part in the evacuation at This record, which this week tells the deathless story of the gallant armada of small boats which helped in the rescue of the B.E.F. from Flanders, will constitute an authentic document of one ...

... New Warfare described in Lord Gort's Despatches (and also in The Battle of Flanders by Ian Hay, the more popular exposition of the B.E.F.'s experiences in France and Flanders in 1940), is that of the changed conditions experienced in 1940 behind the actual ...

... Government in any way that will win the war. NEWSREEL cameramen and newspaper men who returned from Flanders exchanged their experiences during the evacuation of Boulogne at an informal party held on Tuesday evening at the Berkeley Hotel. Although everything ...

... knowledge that might be sands of people were still endur- used for subversive purposes. conditions comparable with those in Flanders. , While approximately 100.000 are there the danger, homeless, or living in wrecked ut in Groser, that the houses, many ...

... small vessel brought Lord Gort, Corn - ACTlONmander-in-Chief of the 8.E.F.. back home. He had refused to sail until the evacuation of the CAPTAIN Richard B.E.F. and the French troops from Dunkirk was well for- Whittlker Porritt, ward. In London he will ...