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Many men jeopardize their own lives frequently to save the American sailors; several hang by lines over the cliffs to keep survivors from dragging over sharp rocks as they are pulled up from the beach below; others go out in a dory, risking swamping several times in the rough waves; after working all day rescuing USS 'Truxtun's' people, some of the local inhabitants then toil all night rescuing USS 'Pollux's' men with a stamina that defies description. Though poor, the men, women, and children of the town of St. Lawrence turn out to outfit the ;"Hardly a dozen men from both ships would have been saved," one observer writes later, "had it not been for the superb work of the local residents."
Subsequently, they turn a deaf ear to offers to pay for food and clothing used in succoring the shipwrecked Americans."....survivors with blankets, warm clothes, boots, fed them, cleaned them up as best they could and turned them in their own beds."
Leahy is thus retained in France."to hold the fort [in Vichy] is as important a military task as any other in these days."
Leahy writes in his diary that everything points to his early recall to Washington "for consultation.""will take such action in the interest of security of the Western Hemisphere as it may judge necessary and in accordance with existing inter-American obligations. "
Stulpnagel goes on to say that the campaign in Russia is taking an unexpected turn and he considered that Germany's tactical interests lay in securing its empire with the minimum of force. If you're wondering who these people are: Stulpnagel is the Milit`rbefehlsaber (German Military Governor) of Paris. Ernst Junger is a German writer who at the time was a member of Stulpnagel's staff, and kept a diary."In him, delicacy, grace, suppleness, are oddly mixed, suggesting a ballet master, with features like wooden guignol, melancholy and maniacal. He had sent for about the question of hostages, because he was most concerned that the record in the future be accurate. Beside, the question is the only one which has to do with his departure. Seen from the outside, he displays the grand proconsular power of someone in his position, and there is no way of learning the secret history of the quarrels and intrigues within the palace walls. The story is filled out with the struggle against the embassy and the Nazi party in France, the latter slowly gaining ground, without the Army High Command lending its support to the general."
"have strict orders not to start any action, only to attack and destroy German search parties."
"We call bread bread and wine wine, and when the enemy wins a battle it is useless and ridiculous to seek, as the English do in their incomparable hypocrisy, to deny or diminish it."
Turkey, for some unknown reason, likewise refused them to disembark although the local Jewish community, who were already running a camp for Displaced Persons, were quite willing to take the 'Struma's' passengers and were in the meantime supplying them with food and water. One of the passengers, Medeea Marcovici, suffered an embolism and was transferred to the Jewish hospital in Instanbul. She was granted a visa for Palestine and died in 1996. After two months at Instanbul with engines that were damaged beyond repair, conditions on board became appalling, many of the passengers now suffering from dysentery and malnutrition. Eventually the Turkish police arrived to tow the 'Struma' out into the Black Sea. The British had exerted strong pressure on Turkey to pursue this course. The enraged passengers fought them off, but a second attempt, where force was used, succeeded and the 'Struma' was towed out and cast adrift outside Turkish territorial waters. This inhuman decision by the Turkish and British governments was to destroy the special relationship between Britain and the Zionist Jews. On the water for 74 days since leaving Conatansa, the 'Struma', hopelessly overcrowded, and with no country willing to accept them, was suddenly torpedoed and sunk by the Russian submarine SHCH-213 commanded by Lt. Col. Isaev, just ten miles from Instanbul. All on board, a total of 796 persons, perished except one, nineteen year old David Stoljar who today (1999) lives in Oregon USA.The British High Commissioner in Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael, stated:"It will encourage a flood of refugees"
'The fate of these people was tragic, but the fact remains that they were nationals of a country at war with Britain, proceeding direct from enemy territory. Palestine was under no obligations towards them".
Its first programs are in German."The Voice of America speaks. ... we shall speak to you about America and the war. The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth."
"only by simultaneous offensive operations on two or more of the fronts can Hitler's armed forces be disposed of."
The paras embarked with the secret equipment and, as instructed, brought with them a captured RDF operator. They lost three dead and six captured. There was one RAF Radar expert, Flight Sergeant C.W.H. Cox. not a Royal Engineer, who identified and stripped out the vital components. To add to the drama he had never been in a boat or an aircraft before the raid. Due to an amazingly stupid senior officer, the Radar expert had to wear army uniform and wasn't allowed to dress or carry papers that would have made him look like another para. As a result, he stood out like a sore thumb and had an escort who had orders to shoot him if he looked like he was to be captured, as he was trained in British radar. It takes courage to go on a mission like that, but to go when you know your own side will shoot you to stop you being captured, is something very special. (contributed by Glider.)"The ruddy Navy's here!"
This, the first massive air-raid on Paris, was targetted on the Renault factory at Boulogne-Billancourt, where tanks were being made for the Heer. The bombing was inaccurate; some 500 killed and three times as many wounded."We were returning with Robert Rey from dining near the Opera', wrote Galtier-Boissire, 'when the antiaircraft opened up violently, making the ground shake. Away to the west there was a terrific raid. The Pont Neuf was crowded with bystanders who watched the bombing as they would have done a firework display on July 14.'