... What Happens in the Room in the Heart of the Empire where Dramatic Decisions are made By Emrys Jones WITHIN a few months of the outbreak of war I was sitting in the room of a Cabinet Minister in the House of Commons, a man I knew well enough to ask what happened at the last Cabinet meeting held before the fateful eleven o'clock on the morning of September 3, 1939. Of course I knew he would not ...

... Destroyer Duty A vivid description of the work of these convoy protectors Bv Edward Cranston THE dream suddenly becomes reality. The thing which is shak ing one's shoulder refuses to fade into oblivion, and with an un pleasant return to consciousness, one realises that it is four o'clock in the morn ing, and that the ship is due to sail in half an hour's time. Everything outside the bunk is ...

... These 'ML en F o r m Ghurchills Gang Some Personal Stories of the rYeam backing up the Prime Minister By C. Patrick Thompson FROM his Berlin control-station, the dark Nibelung dwarf who runs Hitler's hydra-headed pro paganda machine pulls out his loudest organ-stop, and millions of ears the world over hear a shrill, screaming hate-hymn against the Churchill gang. A vague, suggestive, ...

... Six Days that Shook eWorld Outstanding Events Past Two Years which Changed the Face of of the have E urop e 5 By gEORGE SLOCOMBE IN a fast-changing world, dates rapidly come to mean nothing. Already August the Fourth, 1914, which to many of us means the end of the world we had known, is almost forgotten by a younger generation, and even part of an elder, now at grips with another and more ...

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