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APPRECIATIVE MESSAGE TO LORD GORT

... dated yesterday, Lord Gort has published extracts from a letter received from the Prime Minister, in which Mr. Chamberlain speaks of his recent visit to the B.E.F. and says: I was particularly impressed by the great progress made in short a time and despite ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 523 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER

... n. This is the position of public and preparatory day schools that made their own arrangements in September. One can only speak from knowledge of some seven or eight schools in part of London, and of those only two arc carrying on in the country for next ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1825 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Birmingham Post

... off the stage always remained a gentleman and scholar with little trace of the actor, although he was always happiest when speaking with amiable detachment of Shakespeare and the stage. Sir Frank was not without honour in his day and generation. In 1910 ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 511 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1940

... British Empire. Here again we have seen not only a repetition but, as it were, an intensification of history. General Smuts speaks as Prime Minister of a South Africa united beyond Nazi imagination. It is a real Union, to which the outbreak of war means ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1496 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

INDOMITABLE COURAGE OF FRENCH WOMEN

... French friends, —It was with real pleasure that I accepted the invitation to talk to you to-day. lam happy to think that lam speaking not to strangers, but to friends, for I can claim long acquaintance with your country. I was only nine years old when I paid ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1150 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES

... ißothenstein will give a talk on the Royal Academy United Artists’ Exhibition and later in the evening Sir John Boyd Orr’will speak about the people’s food in war time. 7. 0 a.m.— Time and news 7 lo ~?plm f ioforte) rl Gri6K played b v Arthur Dulay l Lift ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 834 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A Shropshire Lad Complete

... direct contact with a serious and feeling mind whose great and true gifts are unquestioned. Conversations With Hitler Hitler Speaks. Hermann Rauschning. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) Dr. Rausclining, once a Nazi and head of the Nazi Government in Danzig ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 717 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HALF OF THE EUROPEAN FREE PRESS EXTINGUISHED

... HALF OF THE EUROPEAN FREE PRESS EXTINGUISHED -Mr. J. Spender, speaking at a meeting of the Institute of Journalists in London yesterday, said that German propaganda had become laughing-stock throughout the neutral world. half Europe the free Press had ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 56 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CALL FOR NATIONAL YOUTH SCHEME LORD DERBY ON PROBLEM OF IDLE YEARS

... CALL FOR NATIONAL YOUTH SCHEME LORD DERBY ON PROBLEM OF IDLE YEARS Speaking at Liverpool yesterday, the Earl of Derby said: I am greatly encouraged by the general approval that has been given to my suggestion that something should be done, in these difficult ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Not Intended to Replace Paintings

... could be found in the furniture of Louis XIV to Louis XVI with all its carvings and gildings. The Japanese had no furniture to speak of, and their taste forbade more obvious display of gold surfaces except in Buddhist buildings. So they used the gold in various ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SHOOTING CHARGES AT VVILLENHALL

... the land. Superintendent J. H. Davison said that at 8.30 p.m. on Friday he visited prisoner’s home, and Williams said: “If I speak candid, 1 was not responsible for my actions the time I done it.” Police-constable Baker said prisoner, when charged with shooting ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 311 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ground Crews’ Work in Bitter Wind

... with British and French soldiers; and despite the fact that Indians, British and French all suffer from not being able to speak one another’s language, they have all managed to get along together extremely well.—Press Association. GERMAN PLANS FOR GREAT ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 550 | Page: 5 | Tags: none