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Tag Archives: News Chronicle
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
27.9.40
The News-Chronicle to-day is markedly defeatist, as well it may be after yesterday’s news about Dakar[1]. But I have a feeling that the News-Chronicle is bound to become defeatist anyway and will be promptly to the fore when plausible peace … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged bombs, Dakar, lights, new statesman, News Chronicle, Nonconformists, peace terms, Regent's Park
20 Comments
20.8.40
The papers are putting as good a face as possible upon the withdrawal from Somaliland, which is nevertheless a serious defeat, the first loss of British territory for centuries. . . . It’s a pity that the papers (at any … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air-raids, Home Guard, News Chronicle, newspapers, somaliland, tin hats
7 Comments
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
1.7.40
Newspapers now reduced to 6 pages, i.e., 3 sheets[1]. Print reduced in size. Rough analysis of to-day’s News-Chronicle: 6 pages = 48 columns. Of these (excluding small adverts. besides headlines on front page) 15 columns or nearly one third are … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged advertisements, Balbo, Durutti, Express, Fritsch, Mola, News Chronicle, newspapers, propaganda, RAF, Spain, Spanish, Vidal
11 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
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