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Tag Archives: troops
2.6.40
Impossible to tell how many men of the B.E.F. have really been repatriated, but statements appearing in various papers suggest that it is about 150,000 and that the number that originally advanced into Belgium was about 300,000. No indication as … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged advertisements, aeroplanes, bef, Belgium, clothes, de Valera, Dunkirk, evacuation, food and drink, french, gambling, Germany, Italy, patent medicines, Sunday papers, The People, tobacco, troops
5 Comments
HOTEL DES NEGOCIANTS, MARRAKECH 21.3.39
Yesterday the Sultan made an official visit and drove through the town, which had been previously decorated with flags etc. and several thousand troops to line the streets. Obviously this was intended partly as a loyalty-parade in connection with the … Continue reading
VILLA SIMONT, 12.3.39 [1]
Troops[2] returning from manoeuvres[3] passed the house a few days back, to the number of about 5000 men, more than half of[4] these Senegalese. The spahis look pretty good, general physique better than the average of the population. Horses about … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged ammunition, crops, Foreign Legion, Foreign Legionnaires, newspaper bias, newspapers, Spahis, troops, wages, war
21 Comments
VILLA SIMONT, 22.11.38
Some days back visiting the British consul. The latter (named Robert Parr) is man of about 40, cultivated, very hospitable, married, appears to be in easy circumstance. Speaks French, very careful and grammatically very correct, but very strong English accent … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged British British Consul, Conservative, French opinion on war, Liberal, price of commodities, tax, troops, wages
12 Comments
VILLA SIMONT, ROUTE DE CASABLANCA 1.11.38
Cannot yet get any definite ideas as to the land system here. All the land round here is either cultivated or what passes as cultivable, except for a few spurs of hills. We are just within the edge of the … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged crops, hostility towards Jews, land distribution, ploughing, price of commodities, Ramadan, sheep, troops, typical Arab village, vegetables
8 Comments
MARRAKECH 27.9.38
The other local daily paper read here is La Presse Marocaine, which is somewhat more right-wing (at any rate more anti-Russian and more pro-Franco) than the Petit Marocain. There are said to be about 15,000 troops in Marrakech. Apart from … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged Arabs, beggars, cost of living, drought, Jews, newspapers, poverty, Spahis, troops, wages, war
16 Comments
MARRAKECH 16.9.38
The two papers normally read here are the Casablanca dailies, Le Petit Marocain, obtainable about midday, and La Vigie Marocaine, not obtainable till evening. Both are patriotic, more or less anti-Fascist, but neutral as to Spanish Civil War and anti-Communist. … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged air force, berlin, communist, fascist, morocco, neville chamberlain, newspapers, spanish civil war, troops
7 Comments
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