"Thank God we had the guls to do it" and "The Nelson touch," are two of the headings under which the press today unanimously praise the British Government's order to the destroyer Cossack to enter Norwegian waters and rescue the captive Britons aboard the Altmark.
The "Sunday Times" says it is a heartening piece of news. The Norwegian authorities at Oslo, it asserts, have put themselves in the weighing. They had no business to allow their neutrality to be exploited for conveying captive Britons to Germany.
The "Sunday Dispatch" says "Britain has demonstrated that there will be no more nonsense. If a Government cannot keep its waters neutral; if it affords shelter to an enemy ship of war; Britain must, and now clearly will, act in defence of the rights of this country."
rhe "Sunday Express" declares that the whole world, basing considerations on broad claims of humanity and sympathy apart from points of Jaw, will applaud' Mr. Winston Churchill and the Navy for their actions.
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