Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five months ago London was the biggest city in the world (population: 8,500,000). Last week Gas, Light and Coke Co., which virtually monopolizes the city's utilities, estimated a 1,500,000 decrease in customers since war broke. At the most conservative, each of those customer households represented two people. At least 3,000,000 people, therefore, had by last week been evacuated or mobilized, and London had shrunk smaller than New York City (7,425,000) and Tokyo...
...same restaurants as Army officers; and when Private Atkins goes back to his regiment he finds solicitous "personnel officers"-created by Hore-Belisha-who have no other duty than to watch over his personal welfare. In short the Army has been "vigorously democratized," and there was no question last week of canceling out these reforms when Neville Chamberlain quietly obtained the resignation of his War Secretary. At No. 10 Downing Street the Prime Minister told Mr. Hore-Belisha, "You will live in history." Gradual democratization not only of the Army but of all Britain has in fact been Tory policy...
There were hints this week that their choice for the job was Winston Churchill...
Father-to-Son. Thus the Cabinet and the generals were well pleased when Neville Chamberlain picked as his new War Secretary last week a man of character and a great gentleman, Mr. Oliver Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby, who was Secretary of State for War in 1916-18 and again in 1922-24. If the time is coming to send Tommy Atkins to glory, death and victory, quiet Mr. Stanley, who won the Croix de Guerre in hot fighting on the Western Front, will not hold the Army back. Neither will he go-get. That is practically guaranteed...
...Canada this week the appointment of Mr. Stanley was viewed askance, for Canadian troops have been writing home rhapsodies about the fine treatment they have been given by "The Tommy's Friend." In London the Daily Express of self-made Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook gloomed: "Mr. Oliver Stanley is a most unsatisfactory appointment. . . . He belongs to the Tory hierarchy. . . . Belisha does not belong to that class...