I know not whether Winston Churchill attempted to name the chain of state-subsidised restaurants in WW2 'national restaurants', but that name...
The speech in Washington, 16 April 1953, by the President of the United States and former Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, continued: "The...
Well, we are in exalted company so philosophically debating. Did not Winston Churchill insist, "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war"?...
As to whether "killing can be a perfectly nice thing", let us turn to the soldier poet Wilfred Owen (himself killed exactly one week before the...
As a child I was taught that some things were "not nice". Killing was one of them. Logical extension of the principle suggests that machines for...
I am puzzled by the concept of any picture of a machine for killing being "nice".
The phrase "ID Card" is a specifically US term never used in the UK in WW2. The card in question is manifestly a spoof never intended seriously...
In everyday parlance in Britain, it was simply "the war", with a not necessarily spoken distinction from "the last war" (WW1). Nomenclatural...
In the UK single women aged 20-24 without dependent children became liable to conscription, but only a small proportion actually ended up in the...
A significant number of conscientious objectors to WW2 military service, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, and Germany argued...
Essentially, it means the latter. Enlistment in the TA then, as to the Reserve now, entails commitment to a liability to be called to full-time...
I have a dream ... deeply rooted in the American dream ... that my four little children will one day not be judged by the color of their skin but...
Maybe the author's grudging patriotism inhibited mention of one significant literary figure, Vera Brittain, who spoke out trenchantly against the...
Interesting to compare US procedures with British concerning what became known as "reserved occupations" in the UK. Whereas the US warned of the...
First, a technical correction: the first article to which a link is given describes William Douglas-Home's elder brother, Alec, as succeeding to...
It is certainly possible that at the time Britain declared war in September 1939 Burbridge declared an intention, when the time came for him to...
I have no special knowledge regarding Brighton, but the coastal regulations covered pretty well the whole southern and eastern coasts of Britain,...
The Daily Mail can always be relied upon to get at least one fact wrong. The tribunals before which applicants for exemption from military service...
And he maintained the right to refuse to kill.
You will find my great uncle on CWGC as William Cronyn, the only man of that name. I know a little more about his background, but I have no...
