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... comfortable as they were in peacetime. The big shots in the world of military history are already busy on histories of the second World War, prominent among them being Commander King- Hall and Sir Ronald Storrs. But I can not help feeling that there is also ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1207 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: War-time Comments and Asides

... warning. At last the trains ran again, and the men were charged the excess fares. I swear that I am the first man in the second world war to hear two classics. War broke out at 11 a.m. At 11. 10 a dignified, elderly gent, said, No, sir, I will not take cover ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1466 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... incident that the marriage of Field-Marshal von Blomberg to a short hand-typist should have been largely responsible for the second world war. This is, at any rate, the view of Sir Nevile Henderson, our late Ambassador in Berlin. It was this marriage which p ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1863 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Wartime Comments and Asides

... elsewhere. But while the first World War struck a cruel blow at the noblest of all indoor games, it may well be that the second World War will kill it almost entirely. Courts are closing down, and professionals are forced to seek a livelihood elsewhere, and ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1882 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs