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Mr. Duff Cooper last week became British Minister of Information. * Water from the three central rivers — Lek, Waal and Maas — was preferred by the thrifty Dutch for flooding. Being fresh, it would not ruin their land for future planting as would sea water. But when the alarm came in the night, they resolutely touched off charges that ripped great holes in the south retaining dike, let in their oldest ally, the sea. *Foreign Minister van Kleffens, speeding to London the first morning, was forced down at the British coast when his plane's fuel tanks ran dry after being riddled by his own anti-aircraft guns protecting him from the Xazi attackers.