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6 DECEMBER
WHY ARE WE KILLING THE VIETNAMESE AND COLLABORATING WITH THE JAPANESE ? 6 December 1945 – A letter sent to Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, from a group of British soldiers stationed in Vietnam is published at the bottom of page six of the Manchester Guardian under the prosaic headline “British in Indo-China.”. It disclosed…
25 JULY
THE FIRST RAF FIRE BOMBING RAID ON HAMBURG KILLS THOUSANDS [ 25 July 1943 ] At about 00.57 on 25 July 1943, RAF bombers unleashed hundreds of bright red and yellow marker bombs, followed by thousands of incendiary bombs, on the densely populated German city of Hamburg. It was the first of four RAF fire…
20 JANUARY
WINSTON CHURCHILL SUGGESTS ‘KEEP ENGLAND WHITE’ AS AN ELECTION SLOGAN [ 20 January 1955 ] On 20 January 1955, Defence Minister Harold Macmillan noted that at a Cabinet meeting there had been ‘more discussions about the West Indian immigrants. A bill is being drafted but it is not an easy problem. P.M. (Winston Churchill) thinks…
19 DECEMBER
THE UK’S REFUSAL TO PROSCRIBE THE UDA TERROR ORGANISATION RIDICULED 19 December 1980 – An article appeared in the New York Daily News, based on a telephone conversation with Sam Duddy, the press relations officer of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the largest Loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland. The journalist, Michael Daly expressed his…
28 MAY
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18 DECEMBER
THE ROUTINE USE OF TORTURE AGAINST DETAINEES IN ADEN 18 December 1965 – Medical reports by the Aden Director of Health Services backed allegations of torture made against the British run interrogation centre at Fort Morbut in Aden. A representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was eventually allowed to visit the…