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Tag Archives: Regent’s Park
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
31.8.40
Air-raid warnings, of which there are now half a dozen or thereabouts every 24 hours, becoming a great bore. Opinion spreading rapidly that one ought simply to disregard the raids except when they are known to be big-scale ones and … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, anti-aircraft guns, bomb, Eileen, explosion, Maida Vale, Regent's Park, Spain
6 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
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