Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Sir Bernard Montgomery, who, back home with his cricket-captain son David, had lately made a picture of English summertime contentment, was in a jam when his Fortress ground-looped on a Sicilian airport about the size of a cricket field. Thoroughly shaken up but uninjured, the General "took it like a good sport," said his pilot...
...Cricket? Liberals have always preferred the game of good v. evil, "the old intellectual game of antagonistic principles. It is an attractive game because it gives us the sensation of thinking, and its first rule is that if one of two opposed principles is wrong, the other is necessarily right." The importance of Forster's work is that he will not play this game; or he plays it only to make...
...with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested only in finance. Sir John Simon thought the air force a nuisance. When asked about the R.A.F., Stanley Baldwin replied with talk about cricket, rowing or books. Those years were a period of despondency for Lord Londonderry. Says he: "There was nothing I could do at the time [in 1936, when he was no longer Air Minister] so I went to Sutherland for some fishing...
...ever since the war started-the fact that one may, with propriety, use any means of killing an enemy airman as long as he is still in his plane, but if he is forced to land, as soon as he touches the ground it's not cricket to shoot him even though he may just have bombed to eternity a few hundred men, women and children...
Random Sowing. Bombs and bullets do strange things when dropped and fired at random. In Brighton an army eleven was playing cricket against the local police. Lieut. G. W. Wood was bowling when a bomb hit the playing green. "I found myself blown some distance away," he said. The chief constable, waiting to bat, threw himself down and an iron girder fell across his neck...