Announcer 18 hours out. Destination, unknown. A military secret. The Largest Overseas expedition. Guarded by the blue ensign of the american navy. Southwards from britain, some 3000 miles away, and even greater convoy twice this twice the size moves across the sea, shielded i the british navy. Destroyers, cruisers on the flanks, and on the horizon, battleships. From the decks of aircraft carriers and from the shore, planes from the fleet airline and coastal command control the seas. East northeast, the american convoy. Southwest by west, the british. Nothing like these two armadas had disturbed the waters since the world was made. This is a combined operation that began some four months earlier in washington, d. C. The president of the United States welcomed the Prime Minister of great britain. The gravity of the moment brought them together. The lights burned allnight that night in the white house where the two leaders met with their combined chiefs of staff. This was the picture taki
What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical context of colonialism and anticolonial resistance, what’s most remarkable is that anyone in 2023 should be still surprised that conditions of absolute violence, domination, suffocation, and control produce appalling violence in turn.
They Who Get Slapped August 1 1945
BEVERLEY BAXTER S London Letter
They Who Get Slapped
THREE DAYS ago I journeyed from London to Oldham, in Lancashire. It was pleasant to find a vacant seat in a first-class compartment, and I took a quick survey of my fellow voyagers for the five-hour trip. In one corner was a streamlined American girl, in uniform, with a long nose, long fingers and long legs. In another corner was a subaltern on his way to an embarkation centre for India. In yet another corner was an oldish man who never spoke or moved during the entire trip and whom I could not have identified an hour after we had dispersed.