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Monthly Archives: June 2012
24.6.42
Listened in last night to Lord Haw Haw – not Joyce,[1] who apparently has been off air for some time, but a man who sounded to me like a South African, followed by another with more of a cockney voice. … Continue reading
21.6.42
The thing that strikes one in the BBC – and it is evidently same in various of the other departments – is not so much the moral squalor and the ultimate futility of what we are doing, as the feeling … Continue reading
15.6.42
No question now that the second front has been decided on. All the papers talk of it as a certainty and Moscow is publicising it widely. Whether it is really feasible remains to be seen, of course. Cutting from BBC … Continue reading
13.6.42
The most impressive fact about the Molotov visit is that the Germans knew nothing about it. Not a word on the radio about Molotov’s presence in London till the signature of the treaty was officially announced, although all the while … Continue reading
11.6.42
[The Germans announce over the wireless that as the inhabitant of a Czech village called Ladice° (about 1200 inhabitants) were guilty of harbouring the assassins of Heydrich they have shot all the males in the village, sent all the women … Continue reading
Posted in Political, War-time
Tagged bbc, China, czech republic, Germany, gramaphone, Japan, propaganda, radio
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10.6.42
The only time when one hears people singing in the BBC is in the early morning, between 6 and 8. That is the time when the charwomen are at work. A huge army of them arrives all at the same … Continue reading
7.6.42
The Sunday Express has also gone cold on the second front. The official line now appears to be that our air raids are a second front. Obviously there has been some kind of government handout to the papers, telling them … Continue reading
