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• Sunday, 8 September 1940

  8 September 2010 in 1940s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940, Radio

  '[T]he great daylight attack on London' (7) yesterday evening came at an awkward time for the Observer. It was too late to do the opinion page over, and so it features editor J. L. Garvin's thoughts on the destroyer deal and the battle of wills between Hitler and Churchill. So there is less than half [...]

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• Saturday, 7 September 1940

  7 September 2010 in 1940s, Books, Civil defence, Periodicals, Post-blogging 1940

  Today's New Statesman and Nation has little to say about a German invasion or aerial strategy, unlike the Spectator yesterday, aside from a brief paragraph in the editorial comments (221) noting that German bombers now have an equal number of fighters as escorts: The primary object of these attacks has been to engage and destroy [...]

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• Friday, 6 September 1940

  6 September 2010 in 1940s, Periodicals, Post-blogging 1940

  This week's issue of the Spectator, an influential commentary from the right, has a number of editorial comments and columns about the course of the war. The leading paragraph, on page 234, discusses Hitler's recent speech ('bombast [...] lies [...] threats'), focusing on one of his statements which suggests that 'the German Air Force is [...]

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• Thursday, 5 September 1940

  5 September 2010 in 1940s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940, Radio

  Bomber Command has been busy bombing German forests, among other targets: the Black Forest on Monday night, the Hartz [sic] in north-west Germany and the Grunewald north of Berlin on Tuesday night. According to the Air Ministry communique, issued last night and reported here in The Times (4), 'military targets [were] concealed' in these forests; [...]

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• Wednesday, 4 September 1940

  4 September 2010 in 1940s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940

  The big news in the Manchester Guardian today (5) has nothing to do with the air war but a deal with the United States, which will transfer fifty elderly destroyers to Britain in exchange for 99-year leases on bases in the Western Hemisphere. (It seems that Roosevelt meant what he said at Newfound Gap.) The [...]

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