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Tag Archives: blitz
1.8.42
If the figures given are correct, the Germans have lost about 10 per cent of their strength in each of the last raids. According to Peter Masefield this isn’t anything to do with the new guns but has all been … 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
1.3.41
The B.s, who only came up to London a few weeks ago and have seen nothing of the blitz, say that they find Londoners very much changed, everyone very hysterical, talking in much louder tones, etc., etc. If this is … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air-raids, blitz, Cheltenham, evacuation, London, Tube
4 Comments
22.1.41
——- [1] is convinced, perhaps rightly, that the danger of the People’s Convention [2] racket is much underestimated and that one must fight back and not ignore it. He says that thousands of simple-minded people are taken in by the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged alarm clock, blitz, Daily Express, Daily Worker, Dean of Canterbury, Hewlett Johnson, onions, People's Convention, posters, racketeering, Tobruk
11 Comments
2.1.41
The rightwing reaction is now in full swing, and Margesson’s entry into the Cabinet is no doubt a deliberate cash-in on Wavell’s victory in Egypt. Comically enough a review of Wavell’s life of Allenby which I wrote some months ago … Continue reading
28.11.40
Lunching yesterday with C.[1], editor of France. . . To my surprise he was in good spirits and had no grievances. I would have expected a French refugee to be grumbling endlessly about the food, etc. However, C. knows England … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Americans, blitz, Coventry, edward VIII, fascism, France, Italy, Laval, monarchy, Mrs Simpson, pierre comert, Stalin, Vichy
10 Comments
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