The "People" states that if the these ren rescued, left them to their fate for a mere quibble of nice international procedure, every honest Briton would have cried "Shame!" and every follower of Herr Hitler would have shouted himself hoarse in derision.
The Admiralty's order, says the "Sunday Chronicle," will be endorse ed enthusiastically by the whole Empire.
The "Sunday Pictorial" declares that the world had begun to think this was not the same Britain which was proud and justly respected, but, it adds, the order which went out from. Mr. Churchill's Admiralty, and was so boldly carried out by our sailors, descendants of Nelson. puts Britain right in the eyes of Britain, neutrals—yes—and Germans."—Reuter,
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