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Tag Archives: Cripps
7.6.42
The Sunday Express has also gone cold on the second front. The official line now appears to be that our air raids are a second front. Obviously there has been some kind of government handout to the papers, telling them … Continue reading
27.3.42
News of the terms Cripps took to India supposed to be bursting tomorrow. Meanwhile only rumours, all plausible but completely incompatible with one another. The best-supported – that India is to be offered a treaty similar to the Egyptian one. … Continue reading
14.3.42
I reopen this diary after an interval of about 6 months, the war being once again in a new phase. The actual date of Cripp’s departure for India was not given out, [1] but presumably he has gone by this … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Beaverbrook, Churchill, Cripps, Germany, India, Russia, war
8 Comments
14.6.41
Complete mystery, about which no one has any real news, surrounds the state of affairs between Russia and Germany. Cannot yet make contact with anyone who has seen Cripps since his return.[1] One can only judge by general probabilities, and … Continue reading
22.7.40
No real news for days past. The principal event of the moment is the pan-American conference, now just beginning, and the Russian absorption of the Baltic states, which must be directed against Germany. Cripps’s wife and daughters are going to … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Baltic states, Cripps, Franco, Germany, imports, Moscow, News Chronicle, oil, pan-American conference, Russia, Spain
13 Comments
2.7.39.
Foreign & General 1. Poland states that Danzig will be occupied if Danzig Senate declares for the Reich. Sunday Times [a] 2. N.L.C.[1] of Labour Party broadcast in German in much the same terms as at September crisis. Observer [b] … Continue reading
Posted in Leading Up to War, Political
Tagged Amery, Burgin, Cripps, Danzig, Eden, N.L.C., Ramsay Muir, Sinclair
8 Comments
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