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Tag Archives: Greece
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
21.5.41
All eyes on Crete. Everyone saying the same thing – that this will demonstrate one way or the other the possibility of invading England. This might be so if we were told the one relevant fact, i.e., how many men … Continue reading
3.5.41
The number evacuated from Greece is now estimated at 41-43,000 but it is stated that we had less men there than had been supposed, probably about 55,000. Casualties supposed to be 3,000, and prisoners presumably 7 or 8 thousand, which … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Australia, British government, evacuation, Germany, Greece, Iraq, oil wells, scruples, Spender, Turkey
6 Comments
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
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
2 Comments
9.4.41
The budget has almost knocked the Balkan campaign out of the news. It is the former and not the latter that I overhear people everywhere discussing. [1] This evening’s news has the appearance of being very bad. The Greek C. … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Balkans, budget, Greece, Home Guard, Serbs, shotguns, tommy guns
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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
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7.4.41
Belgrade bombed yesterday, and the first official announcement this morning that there is a British army in Greece – 150,000 men, so they say. So the mystery of where the British army in Libya had gone to it at last … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Abyssinia, Balkans, Battle of Cape Matapan, Belgrade, Benghazi, conscription, Germany, Greece, Hitler, Jugo-Slavia, Libya, Liddell Hart, Pioneers, U.S.S.R.
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