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Wednesday, June 19, 2002

Churchill's Wartime Worries: Beer, Grammar, Trash New papers released further Churchill's place among the greats of the Twentieth Century, while the article itself points to the fact that the beknighted journalists of the world could do with a bit more grounding in the rudiments of history:
By Georgina Prodhan

LONDON (Reuters) - Even in the middle of World War Two, Winston Churchill still had time to worry about rubbish in the streets, the finer points of English grammar and whether his troops had enough beer, secret files released Tuesday showed.

As he planned the June 1944 invasion of France's Normandy beaches, Britain's wartime Prime Minister did not neglect the environment, while German bombs rained down on London during the Blitz. [...]
Golly Georgina, I don't know what they teach nowadays at Fourth Estate U., but the Blitz is generally given the timeframe of September 7, 1940 to May 11, 1941. Is it too much to ask that we keep such things in the proper chronological order?


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