Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-headed Nazis scarcely expected Britain and France to accept peace offers, hoped rather to maneuver into a position where they would seem, both in German and in neutral eyes, guilty of prolonging war. The first response from London was disquieting. The War Cabinet met, decided: 1) to base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests...
...Lord Macmillan at first clamped down on all wire and radio photos. Main channel of Britain's publicity appeared to be the radio, over which announcers with an air of detached candor and without heat discussed military operations; and the cinema. Moving newsreels of evacuation of children from London, of mothers weeping at the separation from their children, placed the responsibility for Europe's anguish where Britain wanted it placed: on Adolf Hitler, who in German photos was shown smiling at the sound of guns...
From an editorial in last week's London Times...
...Sleep Starvation Tries Looks!" cried the fashion column of London's Daily Telegraph last week, bravely offering health & beauty advice to a host of war-worried feminine readers. "Even the women who are accustomed to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows may be suffering from a minor form of insomnia, and the real victims of insomnia may be having a worse time than usual." To save British complexions from wrinkles etched by air-raid fears, the Telegraph offered with a straight face the following pseudo-scientific "receipts for easy sleep...
...however, was Brooklyn-born Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch, Bombs Bursting in Air), who served through the World War with the Australians, spent eight years in the U. S. Army, resigned in 1932 so he could write & talk about war without being interrupted. From London Major Eliot broadcast six times last week for CBS. Night before war was declared he predicted: 1) "It is impossible for Germany to defeat Poland plus France plus Britain," 2) there would be no immediate bombing of French or British cities, at least until Hitler had had a chance...