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Monthly Archives: August 2010
31.8.40
Air-raid warnings, of which there are now half a dozen or thereabouts every 24 hours, becoming a great bore. Opinion spreading rapidly that one ought simply to disregard the raids except when they are known to be big-scale ones and … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, anti-aircraft guns, bomb, Eileen, explosion, Maida Vale, Regent's Park, Spain
6 Comments
29.8.40
Air-raid alarms during the last 3 nights have totalled about 16-18 hours for the three nights. . . . . . It is perfectly clear that these night raids are intended chiefly as a nuisance, and as long as it … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, alarm, bomb, bus conductor, Hitler, siren, Spain
4 Comments
26.8.40
(Greenwich). The raid which occurred on the 24th was the first real raid on London so far as I am concerned, i.e. the first in which I could hear the bombs. We were watching at the front door when the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, alarms, bombs, East India docks, Greenwich, Huesca, London, Monflorite, newspapers, Spain
6 Comments
23.8.40
This morning an air-raid warning about 3 a.m. Got up, looked at the time, then felt unable to do anything and promptly went back to sleep again. They are talking of rearranging the alarm system, and they will have to … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, alarm system, blimp, communists, Flanders, german, Home Guard, lecture, Notebook, Osterley Park, planes, Russia, Samuel Butler, Trotsky
8 Comments
22.8.40
The Beaverbrook press, compared with the headlines I saw on other papers, seems to be playing down the suggestion that Trotsky’s murder was carried out by the G.P.U[1]. In fact today’s Evening Standard, with several separate items about Trotsky, didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Beaverbrook, cab, David Low, Evening Standard, GPU, horse, Low, newspapers, Popular Front, Portman Square, press, Russia, Trotsky, Trotsky's murder
6 Comments
20.8.40
The papers are putting as good a face as possible upon the withdrawal from Somaliland, which is nevertheless a serious defeat, the first loss of British territory for centuries. . . . It’s a pity that the papers (at any … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air-raids, Home Guard, News Chronicle, newspapers, somaliland, tin hats
7 Comments
19.8.40
A feature of the air raids is the extreme credulity of almost everyone about damage done to distant places. George M.[1] arrived recently from Newcastle, which is generally believed to have been seriously smashed about, and told us that the … Continue reading
16.8.40
Things are evidently going badly in Somaliland, which is the flanking operation in the attack on Egypt. Enormous air battles over the Channel, with, if the reports are anywhere near the truth, stupendous German losses. E.g. about 145 were reported … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air battles, air raid, bombs, Channel, Egypt, Marx, oats, rabbits, shelter, somaliland, Wallington
6 Comments
9.8.40
The money situation is becoming completely unbearable. . . . Wrote a long letter to the Income Tax[1] people pointing out that the war had practically put an end to my livelihood while at the same time the government refused … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air battles, England, Government, income tax, money, RAF, writing
28 Comments
8.8.40
The Italian attack on Egypt, or rather on British Somaliland, has begun. No real news yet, but the papers hint that Somaliland can’t be held with the troops we have there. The important point is Perim, loss of which would … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Belgians, Bolshevik, british somaliland, Churchill, Egypt, french, H G Wells, Italy, lecture, Lord Swinton, Perim, Red Sea, refugees, War Office, Zouaves
2 Comments
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