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Monthly Archives: April 2011
28.4.41
Churchill’s speech last night very good, as a speech. But impossible to dig any information out of it. The sole solid fact I could extract was that at the time of his offensive in Libya Wavell could never concentrate more … Continue reading
25.4.41
C, of my section of the Home Guard, a poulterer by trade but at present dealing in meat of all kinds, yesterday bought 20 zebras which are being sold off by the Zoo. Only for dog meat, presumably, not human … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged bread ration, Home Guard, London Zoo, racehorses, zebra
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24.4.41
No definite news from Greece. All one knows is that a Greek army, or part of a Greek army, or possibly the whole Greek army, has capitulated. No indication as to how many men we have there, what sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged aeroplanes, armistice, Black Sea, blackmail, Crete, Daily Express, Dardanelles, Germany, Greece, hostages, Italy, Russia, Turkey
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23.4.41
The Greeks appear to be packing up. Evidently there is going to be hell to pay in Australia. [1] So long as it merely leads to an inquest on the Greek campaign, and a general row in which the position … Continue reading
22.4.41
Have been 2 or 3 days at Wallington. Saturday night’s blitz could easily be heard there – 45 miles distant. Sowed while at Wallington 40 or 50 lb. of potatoes, which might give 200 or 600 lbs. according to the … Continue reading
17.4.41
Very heavy raid last night, probably the heaviest in many months, so far as London is concerned…Bomb in Lord’s cricket ground (school-boys having their exercise at the nets as usual this morning, a few yards from the crater) and another … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged ambulances, bomb, guns, Hampstead, London, Lord's, sleep, St John's Wood
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14.4.41
The news today is appalling. The Germans are at the Egyptian frontier and a British force in Tobruk has the appearance of being cut off, though this is denied from Cairo. [1] Opinion is divided as to whether the Germans … Continue reading
13.4.41
No real news at all about either Greece or Libya…Of the two papers I was able to procure today, the Sunday Pictorial was blackly defeatist and the Sunday Express not much less so. Yesterday’s Evening Standard has an article by … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged advertisements, Connolly, diary, Evening Standard, Famel Cough Syrup, France, Greece, Hitler, Libya, Near East, Persil, Sunday Express, Sunday Pictorial, Worthington
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12.4.41
The idea that the German troops in Libya, or some of them, got there via French ships and French African territory, is readily accepted by everyone that one suggests it to. Absolutely no mention of any such possibility in the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged fish, fishmonger, french, French Africa, Germany, Libya, perch, press, Vichy France
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