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25.7.40 [George Orwell]

July 25, 2010 in Canada, Home Guard, LDV, Lloyd George, NCOs, Petain, Political, War-time, air-raids, casualties, evacuation, machine-gun nests by orwelldiaries

No news, really. . . . Various people who have sent their children to Canada are already regretting it[1]. . . . Casualties, i.e. fatal ones, from air-raids for last month were given out as about 340. If true, this is substantially less than the number of road deaths in the same period. . . . The L.D.V., now said to be 1,300,000 strong, is stopping recruiting and is to be renamed the Home Guard. There are rumours also that those acting as N.C.O’s are to be replaced by men from the regular army. This seems to indicate either that the authorities are beginning to take the L.D.V. seriously as a fighting force, or that they are afraid of it.

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