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Tag Archives: Tangier
18.5.41
Irak, Syria, Morocco, Spain, Darlan, Stalin, Raschid Ali, Franco – sensation of utter helplessness.[1] If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged America, Canaries, Churchill, Dakar, Darlan, France, Franco, human nature, Iraq, morocco, Nazis, newspapers, Parliament, Rashid Ali, socialism, Spain, Stalin, Syria, Tangier
6 Comments
11.4.41
Reported in yesterday’s papers that Britain is arranging to lend £2,500,000 to Spain – as a reward for seizing Tangier, I suppose. This is a very bad symptom. Throughout the war it has always been when we were in exceptionally … Continue reading
27.6.40
It appears that the night before last, during the air-raid alarm, many people all over London were woken by the All Clear signal, took that for a warning and went to the shelters and stayed there till morning, waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air raid, all clear, aristocracy, Britain, Churchill, Communism, Falangist, France, Franco, german, Hitler, I.L.P., Italy, L. H. Myers, Madrid, MOI, Munich, Mussolini, New Leader, occupation, Petain, propaganda, Rab Butler, recruiting campaign, ruling class, Russia, Russo-German pact, Samuel Hoare, Spanish, Stalin, Tangier, U.S.S.R.
7 Comments
14.6.40
The Germans are definitely in Paris, one day ahead of schedule. It can be taken as a certainty that Hitler will go to Versailles. Why don’t they mine it and blow it up while he is there? Spanish troops have … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged advertising, British government, Franco, French Morocco, Germans, Hitler, Italians, Negrin, Paris, Spanish, Spanish Morocco, Tangier, Underground, Versailles
26 Comments
September 10, 1938, Tangier
Temperature here said never to rise above about 85°. Sea is fairly warm, water extremely clear, objects 20 & 30 feet below being visible when there is no wind. There is a tide rise of about a foot. Sea & … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bougainvillea, brinjals, cannas, donkey, fig, fish, fishing, geraniums, grapes, horticulture, melon, Pollock, prickly pear, sardines, Tangier
22 Comments
TANGIER: 10.9.38
Papers on sale in Tangier: La Presse Marocaine (morning daily Casablanca), strongly pro-Franco; Le Petit Marocain (ditto), impartial; La Depeche Marocaine (daily Tangier), somewhat pro-Franco; Le Journal de Tanger° (apparently weekly), seemingly non-political, business announcements etc.; Tangier Gazette & Morocco … Continue reading
September 5, 1938
Last night much fog, syren° sounding continually. This morning the sea much smoother, grey & oily, about the colour of lead. Later in the day very hot, & the sea bright blue. Passed Cape Roca about 10 am, but invisible … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Cape Roca, Cape Vincent, gulls, martin, oil turbine ship, sea, steam turbine ship, swallow, Tangier, weather, whales
25 Comments
September 4, 1938
Today crossing mouth of Bay of Biscay. Sea a little rougher, ship rolling somewhat. Not sick (seasickness remedy “Vasano” evidently efficacious.) Passing C. Finisterre about 5pm but invisible owing to mist. Run of the ship (12-12) 403 miles. Gibraltar is … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Bay of Biscay, Cape Finisterre, ferry, Gibraltar, gulls, Marseilles, porpoise, porpoises, seasickness, Tangier
23 Comments
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