Evening Standard dated Monday June 17th 1940
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The German Army had marched into Paris on June 14th
1940 and on the 22nd an armistice was signed and France was divided
into the Occupied Zone and the so-called Free Zone under the control of Marshal
Philippe Pétain. The occupied zone covered most of Northern and Western France,
which brought the German Army to within 22 miles of the English coast.
Marshall Pétain had been a National hero for his military
leadership during World War I, but by 1945 he was on trial as a traitor to
France. He was sentenced to death but Charles de Gaulle commuted this to life
imprisonment. He died in 1951 at the age of 95.
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During the 1930’s America’s most famous aviator Charles
Lindbergh made no secret of his admiration for Adolf Hitler’s new Germany and
in particular Hermann Göring’s Luftwaffe. He had visited Germany and had even
been awarded the Service Cross of the German Eagle by Göring. He lectured
widely in America in support of the non-involvement of the US in the European
War even going so far as to blame a conspiracy of ‘Britain, Roosevelt and the
Jews’ for trying to get America to join in the conflict.
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Look out! Spies are everywhere – some clever than others.
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I wonder if any of these volunteers flew in that
summer’s big event – the Battle of Britain? Or possibly even one of the 544 Allied
airmen killed?
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I don't mind telling you, Mate, you just can’t trust them aristocrats.
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Times change along with attitudes. Some for the
better and some not.
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The Soviet Union and Germany had signed a mutual
non-aggression pact in 1939. This article by Left Wing journalist and
politician Michael Foot calling for an alliance between Stalin’s neutral Soviet
Union and Britain against Nazi Germany was published just 5 days before
Hitler’s army invaded Russia. The non-aggression pact was torn up and Russia
joined the Allies.
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Seems a lot of trouble to con a few pence each
time.
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An advert for ‘Gaslight’, the classic melodrama with jewel
theft, murder and a husband trying to send his wife mad. Just the thing to take
your mind off the War. Not to be confused with the 1944 US version.
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Edith decided that today of all days was the wrong one to have
gone ‘commando’.
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The first casualty of War may be truth, but the second is
free speech. The B.E.F. was the British Expeditionary Force most of whom were evacuated at Dunkirk.
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With the Blitz less than 3 months away I’d sign
up asap if I were you.
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