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Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

05/09/1939: Under the relentless pressure by the Wehrmacht, the Polish Army withdraws behind the Vistula river, but the German troops gain bridgeheads on the opposite bank.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1939.htm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I chopped off the last two lines of Churchill's 9-point First Lord's minute in reply #4. The final sentence should be -

The First Lord submits these notes to his naval colleagues for consideration, for criticism and correction, and hopes to receive proposals for action in the sense desired.