From Dunkirk to the Blitz
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On 10 May 1940, Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister. More Hurricane Squadrons were sent over to France in support of the defensive campaign which was just about to unveil. In a month, things would have gone disastrously wrong beyond everyone’s imagination; soon, Churchill would be wearing an air-raid helmet for his publicity photos.
War Secretary: List of 16779 miners serving in Home Forces "out-of-date". Names duplicated, some men discharged in 1928 http://t.co/U0acE4er Mr Nehru warns of crisis. "No chance whatever of any compromise between the British Government and Indian nationalism" http://t.co/cFXLEw50 Chiefs of Staff: Local Russian attacks and German counter-attacks continue without any
noteworthy territorial changes http://t.co/az5rWUib India Secretary: US to aid evacuation of Indians from Burma by running service between Dinjan in Assam and Myitkyina http://t.co/hltXZ02N Cabinet agrees "public ought to be told more about the positive achievements of the nation's War effort" http://t.co/38yTlHUn Minister of Information directed to circulate monthly reports to Cabinet on "the state of public morale" http://t.co/mNJkrTHr Colonial Office receiving reports of heavy Japanese bombing of Burmese capital Mandalay. Much of the city set alight Attlee to report on whether civilian anti-gas precautions are "more, or less, complete in Germany than in this country" http://t.co/EMs3SYjP Eden: Bomb explosion at Angora threatens relations between Russia and Turkey. Situation "somewhat disquieting" http://t.co/LXFTV343 PM: "Important that we should make the Russians realise the extent of the risks" which
are being run in supplying them http://t.co/0Na0ahH5 Admiralty: Of the last convoy returning from Russia, one ship had been sunk by air action and two by U-boat http://t.co/AOVTI4xQ Air Chief: We raided Italy overnight "for the first time for several months". RAF targeted Turin where blackout relaxed http://t.co/eGhEZSKk Prime Minister welcomes Mr. Harry Hopkins and General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the US Army to Cabinet meeting http://t.co/G4BV6R1W Joint Intelligence Committee: Japan's aims "peace in China", occupying Burma, "compelling us to dissipate our troops" http://t.co/Pb8rwaqy Joint Intelligence predicts no invasion of UK in 1942. Hitler characteristic "to try to defeat his enemies one by one" http://t.co/QynlQhik India Secretary: Serious problem arisen in Burma. Up to 1m Indians anxious to depart. Danger "there may be a stampede" http://t.co/Rg5O6oFb Foreign Secretary circulates drafts of proposed military and political treaties with Soviet Union http://t.co/0xhl0Fqj Information Minister reports "widespread decrease in confidence" on Home Front. "Prevalent sense of frustration" http://t.co/HVbsLhYs Morrison: Can release men from civil defence to industry & "replace defensive thinking by an offensive will to victory" http://t.co/mWbzmEtR Chancellor has "communicated to the War Cabinet full particulars of his financial proposals for the forthcoming Budget" http://t.co/C1LfyUap