4 FEBRUARY

SHOULD PRIME MINISTER LUMUMBA FALL INTO A RIVER FULL OF CROCODILES ? Patrice Lumumba, who had become the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo in May 1960, was a troublesome believer in independent economic development, who thought Congolese nationals rather than foreigners should be allowed to run the important offices of government and…

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RAF BOMBING RAIDS AGAINST FLOCKS OF GRAZING SHEEP [ 8 January 1925 ] On 8 January 1925, RAF headquarters in Baghdad, ordered No 30 Squadron RAF to bomb and machine gun the grazing sheep flocks of the nomadic Jaff who inhabited the Kurdish areas of Iraq and Iran. Please feel welcome to post comments below. …

ARCHBISHOP – DON’T INTERFERE IN NAZI GERMANY’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS [ 31 May 1933 ] On 31 May 1933, Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in the House of Lords, expressed concern at the ‘the oppression of members of the Jewish race’ in Germany.  However, he reminded fellow peers that Britain also had to…

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IRAQI VILLAGES AND CATTLE SUBJECTED TO PUNITIVE RAF BOMBING [ 27 January 1923 ] On 27 January 1923, after an RAF officer had been wounded in an ambush two miles north of the Iraqi town of Al Diwaniyah by insurgents opposing British rule, several nearby villages were selected for punitive bombing. Please feel welcome to…