Battle of Cape Matapan

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7.4.41 [George Orwell]

April 7, 2011 in Abyssinia, Balkans, Battle of Cape Matapan, Belgrade, Benghazi, Germany, Greece, Hitler, Jugo-Slavia, Libya, Liddell Hart, Pioneers, Political, U.S.S.R., War-time, conscription by orwelldiaries

Belgrade bombed yesterday, and the first official announcement this morning that there is a British army in Greece – 150,000 men, so they say. So the mystery of where the British army in Libya had gone to it at last cleared up, though this had been obvious enough when the British retreated from Benghazi. Impossible to say yet whether the treaty of friendship between Jugo-Slavia and the U.S.S.R. means anything or nothing, but it is difficult to believe that it doesn’t point to a worsening of Russo-German relations. One will get another indication of the Russian attitude when and if the Emperor of Abyssinia is restored – i.e., whether the Russian government recognises him and sends an ambassador to his court.

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