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Tag Archives: Popular Front
3.7.41
Stalin’s broadcast speech is a direct return to the Popular Front, defence of democracy line, and in effect a complete contradiction of all that he and his followers have been saying for the past two years. It was nevertheless a … Continue reading
22.8.40
The Beaverbrook press, compared with the headlines I saw on other papers, seems to be playing down the suggestion that Trotsky’s murder was carried out by the G.P.U[1]. In fact today’s Evening Standard, with several separate items about Trotsky, didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Beaverbrook, cab, David Low, Evening Standard, GPU, horse, Low, newspapers, Popular Front, Portman Square, press, Russia, Trotsky, Trotsky's murder
6 Comments
16.7.40
No real news for some days, except the British government’s semi-surrender to Japan, i.e. the agreement to stop sending war supplies along the Burma road for a stated period. This however is not so definite that it could not be … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged British, Burma road, China, Government, Hong Kong, intelligentsia, Japan, left, Popular Front, Tosco Fyvel
19 Comments
8.6.40
In the middle of a fearful battle in which, I suppose, thousands of men are being killed every day, one has the impression that there is no news. The evening papers are the same as the morning ones, the morning … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Beaverbrook, Bolshevik, Borkenau, British, cabinet, german, Germany, Italy, newspapers, pacifists, Popular Front, press, Russia purges, Spain, Stafford Cripps, stephen spender, Winston Churchill
10 Comments
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