BRITAIN’S DARK HOUR
NEAR DEFEAT IN 1940 LONDON, June 13 “Following the fall of France, Britain was nearer defeat than our enemies are now,” said the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr A. V. Alexander, in a speech. “When I took over at the Admiralty Britain uad only three corvettes and 90 destroyers working, and 70 corvettes and 80 destroyers in dock.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22063, 14 June 1943, Page 3
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