On This Day In History.... England...1938

[ToraToraTora]

I have in my hand a peice of paper.....Right oh!

Neville Chamberlain regarding the Munich agreement....you know the rest.

[ToraToraTora]

Surprised no comments in this, only the start of the most destructive episode in the last century.

[10ClarionSt]

I think most people know the rest, as you said, TTT. However on Sept 3rd 1939, my dad was onboard HMS Falmouth, anchored in Hanoi harbour, when the captain assembled the crew to inform them about the declaration of war, which was not well received by the crew, apparently. You know the rest.

[douglas9401]

On this day in history.... Britain...1938

 

 

[Zacs-Master]

As in battle of Eh, Dougie🙄

[Peter Pedant]

I have in my hand a peice of paper. - - - I have met Hair Hilter and Mr Bimmler

I hope ar Nev was a betta spella.  and of course we dont know all the rest. Fransh premier ( Daladier I think) saw the crowds around zee Fransh airfield, and asked  - - -  have they come to lynch us?

as for the mat'low in Hanoi ( then a Fransh colony) - he would have been in the British Pacific Fleet lucky fellow. After the Japanese sank HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse 9 Dec 1941 the british pacific fleet hared  back to colombo and stayed there for four years

it was agreed that after the defeat of France - ( la shoot de Fronts as they said) the Japanese would march into the  surrended French colonies in the East ( excuse me) and occupy them, as long as the French nationals were not  interned. The British and Dutch were terribly badly treated.

That explains why  Pere Teilhard de Chardin ( Chinese name: Hu Dat Marn) cd wander around occupied Pekin and note: "all the universities and everything were closed." He was obviously free.

At a cocktail party after the war, s/o asked some old bugga what he did in the war

He replied - I commanded the British Fleet in the Pacific

and she replied oh god i didnt realise we had one

I bet any of you didnt know any of that!