...Defence Volunteers (better-known as the Home Guard), road signs were removed, and large parts of the South East were designated as Defence Areas. The Need for Instructions One of the...
...speech... Rather, he gave it in the House of Commons, beginning at 3.40 pm and sitting down at 4.14. By contrast with some later occasions – notably his ‘finest hour’...
...St James (The National Archives: E 30/310) Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons in October 1943 famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and...
...the NATO alliance and by the end of 1965 France had pulled out of SEATO (South East Asian Treaty Organisation) and refused to participate in future NATO military manoeuvres. He...
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
...technique that Bone used to achieve completion of a sketch in one sitting was to use mediums that were suited to “on the spot” work such as pen, pencil, chalk,...
...would arrive back in London. These delays caused the Foreign Office to use Home Service Messengers for foreign duty. A restructure, in 1795, resulted in 30 messengers interchanged between Home...
...this weapon could cause huge damage and yet it did not use bullets or explosions; it used words. The weapon was “Black Propaganda” – creating enemy propaganda that Germans would...
...Some previous landmarks in the official use of English required statutes. The 1362 Pleading in English Act permitted courtroom business to be done in English. The Anglo-Norman French normally used...
...Russians thought it was aimed at them, well, it was a clear case of ‘if the cap fits . . .’ ‘We now know’, to use John Lewis Gaddis’s phrase,...