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Tag Archives: oil
1.6.41
We are clearing out of Crete. Mention of 13,000 men being evacuated. [1] No mention yet of the total number involved. The most frightful impression will be created if we remove the British troops and leave the Greeks behind, though … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, Baghdad, Britain, censorship, Crete, Damascus, Duke of Hamilton, evacuation, Hansard, Hess, Iraq, MOI, newspapers, oil, Parliament
5 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
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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