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It is sometimes as if the Hand of Heaven reached down and moved the chess pieces, sometimes when it is obviously necessary to save the day and sometimes long before any need can be seen.
The devout will have no doubt- they prayed for help and it was given. Others will wonder if the High Lord really does intervene like that. Let us take some examples.
Dunkirk for instance. The whole British Army had been forced back and trapped against the sae. With them in prison camps an invasion of Britian was unstoppable. But the sea stayed flat calm and thousands of small boats crosed and recrossed the Channel to bring them home.
The next apparent miracle was the breaking off of the German invasion plan. The Channel ports were solid with invasion barges and the Luftwaffe was steadily wiping out our air defence, which was all that could hold it off.
Just then an RAF bomber penetrated to Berlin and dropped a bomb on Hitler's capital. He went hysterical with rage and ordered the Luftwaffe to wipe our cities out."We will annihilate them!" he screamed.
That order saved the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain and the invasion barges went home.
One could cite the success of our own invasions, where things could have led to disaster but did not.There was Hitler's decision to invade Russia, a move which bled his army dry and let our Allied Forces advance across Europe.
But the paramount stroke of fortune was the success of the competing efforts to make an atomic bomb. German scientists were amongst the best in the world and they were hard at work. In an effort to slow them down an attack was made on the source of the vital 'Heavy Water' in Norway.
How much that delayed them is probably unknown, but the thought of Hitler with access to atom bombs on V2 rockets chills the blood!

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