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Tag Archives: Canada
25.7.40
No news, really. . . . Various people who have sent their children to Canada are already regretting it[1]. . . . Casualties, i.e. fatal ones, from air-raids for last month were given out as about 340. If true, this … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air-raids, Canada, casualties, evacuation, Home Guard, LDV, Lloyd George, machine-gun nests, NCOs, Petain
7 Comments
24.6.40
The German armistice terms are much as expected. . . . What is interesting about the whole thing is the extent to which the traditional pattern of loyalties and honour is breaking down. Pétain, ironically enough, is the originator (at … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Canada, capitalists, Churchill, class, collaboration, conquest, demotic speech, Duff-Cooper, Eileen, England, Flandin, France, Frenbch, French Communists, German armistice, Gwen, Hitler, Laval, LDV, left, Manifesto of Plain Men, Mass Observation, News Chronicle, pacifist, patriots, Petain, propaganda, red army, revolution, revolutionary government, revolutionary war, revolvers, Richard Acland, right, Russia, Spain, speeches, Stalin, Verdun, winter
18 Comments
17.6.40
The French have surrendered. This could be foreseen from last night’s broadcast and in fact should have been foreseeable when they failed to defend Paris, the one place where it might have been possible to stop the German tanks. Strategically … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Canada, Canada House, evacuation, french, german, Gwen O’Shaughnessy, medals, navy, newspapers, Paris, patriotism, review, Scottish private, surrender, Underground
9 Comments
28.7.39.
Foreign & General 1. Americans evidently deciding to denounce commercial treaty with Japan. Daily Telegraph [a] Social 1. Gov.t apparently considering raising old age pension, no doubt with an eye to general election. Daily Telegraph [b] 2. Rich gold deposits … Continue reading
Posted in Leading Up to War, Political
Tagged America, Canada, conscientious objector, conscription, Franco, gold, Japan, Military Training Act, Moscow, N.C.L., P.P.U., pension, purge
3 Comments
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