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Tag Archives: LDV
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
30.6.40
This afternoon a parade in Regent’s Park[1] of the L.D.V. of the whole “zone”, i.e. 12 platoons of theoretically about 60 men each (actually a little under strength at present.) Predominantly old soldiers and, allowing for the dreadful appearance that … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Crooms Hill, Cyril Connolly, hand-grenades, Italo Balbo, LDV, local defence squads, mouse, pacifists, parade, Regent's Park, rifles, Senussi, Thetis, working class
5 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
21.6.40
No real news. I see from yesterday’s paper that Chiappe[1] has been elected president of the Paris Municipal Council, presumably under German pressure. So much for the claim that Hitler is the friend of the working classes, enemy of plutocracy, … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Chiappe, drill, Hitler, LDV, officers, Paris Municipal Council
7 Comments
20.6.40
Went to the office of the [New Statesman][1] to see what line they are taking about home defence. C.[2], who is now in reality the big noise there, was rather against the “arm the people” line and said that its … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, arm the people, army, Bevan, bomb, Chamberlain, Churchill, Colonel Blimp, Compton Mackenzie, Dunkirk, George Strauss, German invasion, Glasgow, Hebrides, Hitler, India, intellectuals, Italy, LDV, Lloyd George, Namsos, new statesman, RAF, Rayner Heppenstall, retired colonels, revolutionary war, Richar Crossman, Scotland Yard, Spain, unblimping
17 Comments
13.6.40
Yesterday to a group conference of the L.D.V.[1], held in the Committee Room at Lord’s…Last time I was at Lord’s must have been at the Eton-Harrow match in 1921. At that time I should have felt that to go into … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Blackshirts, Bow, by-election, communists, Government, Home Guard, Lansbury, LDV, Local Defence Volunteers, Lord's, MCC, pacifists, Pioneers
2 Comments
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