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Tag Archives: U.S.S.R.
22.3.42
Empson tells me that there is a strict ban by the Foreign Office on any suggestion that Japan is going to attack the USSR. So this subject is being studiously avoided in the Far Eastern broadcasts while being pushed all … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged communists, foreign office, Germany, Japan, kipling, refugees, Stalin, Trotskyist, U.S.S.R., ukraine
3 Comments
28.8.41
I am now definitely an employee of the B.B.C. The line on the eastern front, in so far as there is a line, now runs roughly Tallinn, Gomel, Smolensk, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson. The Germans have occupied an area which must … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged bbc, Caucasus, Churchill, Dnepropetrovsk, Germany, Gomel, Iran, Kherson, Kiev, Middle East, occupation, Roosevelt, Russia, Smolensk, Tallinn, U.S.A., U.S.S.R.
23 Comments
6.7.41
Several of the papers are growing very restive because we are not doing more to help the U.S.S.R. I do not know whether any action, other than air-raids, is really intended, but if nothing is attempted, quite apart from the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged air-raids, Beaverbrook, Beresina, Catholic, Churchill, communists, England, Germany, Government, Hitler, invasion, Ireland, neutrality, New York, newspapers, People's Convention, planes, Pruth, Russia, tanks, Truth, U.S.A., U.S.S.R.
24 Comments
30.6.41
No real news of the Russo-German campaign. Extravagant claims by both sides, all through the week, about the number of enemy tanks, etc., destroyed. All one can really believe in is captures of towns, etc., and the German claims so … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged Abyssinia, Germany, Internationale, Lemberg, Lithuania, Minsk, national anthem, Russia, tanks, U.S.S.R.
8 Comments
22.6.41
The Germans invaded the U.S.S.R. this morning. Everyone greatly excited. It is universally assumed that this development is to our advantage. It is only so, however, if the Russians actually intend to fight back and can put up a serious … Continue reading
6.5.41
The Turks have offered to mediate in Irak, probably a bad sign. Mobilisation in Iran. The American government stops shipments of war materials to the U.S.S.R., a good thing in itself but probably another bad sign. Astonishing sights in the … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged America, Iran, Iraq, tube stations, Turkey, U.S.S.R.
2 Comments
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
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
21.8.39.
Foreign & General 1. Fresh enquiries by American I.P.O. indicates that the number of people believing U.S.A. would be involved in world war has greatly increased (to about 75%). Number thinking U.S.A. would send troops to Europe still only 25%. … Continue reading
Posted in Leading Up to War, Political
Tagged Chinese currency question, Danzig bridge, Gallup polls, Germany, Hong Kong, Japanese, optical glass, railway strike, U.S.A., U.S.S.R.
4 Comments
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