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Tag Archives: Pioneers
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.
4 Comments
12.2.41
Arthur Koestler [1] is being called up this week and will be drafted into the Pioneers[2], other sections of the forces being barred to him, as a German. What appalling stupidity, when you have a youngish gifted man who speaks … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Archangel, Koestler, Lord Ironside, Pioneers, St Paul's
12 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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