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Tag Archives: Germans
3.6.41
Now that the evacuation of Crete is completed, there is talk of 20,000 men having been removed. Obviously, therefore, they must have begun clearing out long before this was admitted in the press, and the ships sunk were probably lost … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged aeroplanes, Australia, Crete, Cyprus, Germans, Greece, Latakia, newspapers, press, ships, Syria
3 Comments
8.4.41
Have just read The Battle of Britain, the M.O.I.’s best-seller (there was so great a run on it that copies were unprocurable for some days). It is said to have been compiled by Francis Beeding, the writer of thrillers. I … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air battle, Benghazi, Connolly, Francis Beeding, Fyvel, Germans, Greece, Hugh Slater, Italian empire, Libya, Madrid, MOI, News Chronicle, Piccadilly, RAF, The Battle of Britain, Triploi
5 Comments
7.2.41
There is now more and more division of opinion – the question is implicit from the start but people have only recently become aware of it – as to whether we are fighting the Nazis or the German people. This … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Africa, British government, Conservatives, France, Franco, Germans, Germany, Gibraltar, Laval, Nazis, Petain, Spain, Vansittart, war aims
5 Comments
25.6.40
Last night an air raid warning about 1 a.m. It was a false alarm as regards London, but evidently there was a real raid somewhere. We got up and dressed, but did not go to the shelter. This is what … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, America, false alarm, gas masks, Germans, Home Service Battalions, left, shelter
18 Comments
14.6.40
The Germans are definitely in Paris, one day ahead of schedule. It can be taken as a certainty that Hitler will go to Versailles. Why don’t they mine it and blow it up while he is there? Spanish troops have … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged advertising, British government, Franco, French Morocco, Germans, Hitler, Italians, Negrin, Paris, Spanish, Spanish Morocco, Tangier, Underground, Versailles
26 Comments
12.6.40
E[ileen]. and I last night walked though Soho to see whether the damage to Italian shops etc. was as reported. It seemed to have been exaggerated in the newspapers, but we did see, I think, 3 shops which had had … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Abyssinian war, attacks, British, Eileen, french, Germans, Italian shops, Mussolini, soho, Spanish war, Swiss
3 Comments
10.6.40
Have just heard, though it is not in the papers, that Italy has declared war…. The Allied troops are withdrawing from Norway, the reason given being that they can be used elsewhere and Narvik after its capture was rendered useless … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Allied troops, fascists, Germans, Italy, Madrid, Narvik, Norway, Paris, Spain, taxi-driver, War Office
9 Comments
30.8.39.
Foreign & General 1. Virtually no news. Communications are passing to & from but the Cabinet are revealing nothing. Parliament adjurned° for a week. King of the Belgians offering to mediate, which Poles have accepted & Germans express themselves sympathetic … Continue reading
Posted in Leading Up to War, Political
Tagged Churchill, Germans, Harold Nicolson, King of Belgium, L.M., oil, Poles, Rumania, Russian troops, Soviet Parliament, Stck Exchange
4 Comments
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