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Deserves to be used much more.

The end run of the Bressey/Lutyens report of 1937 which sought to adapt London to the age of the motor car. It proposed something uncannily similar to the M25.

No hint that he's speaking an unfamiliar foreign language.

Potemkin's tears perhaps connected to thoughts of his own career/ealth prospects having failed to secure Polish submission for Stalin. He died in his bed.

Even the mighty Sir Horace Wilson only had one quarter of the salary of Neville Chamberlain. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

A truly haunted place.

I've only just found out that it's Gen Zee, not Gen Zed. What better proof that time has passed me by? thetimes.com/uk/arts/articl…

Takes a steady hand to drink from a goblet on horseback.

Model of Lutyens's Thiepval arch commemorating the missing of the Somme displayed at his National Trust Castle Drogo, Britain's last "official" castle built 1911-1926. Its owner lost his oldest son in 1917. Made for a Hayward Gallery exhibition. Commonwealth War Graves

OTD 1941 TUC leader Walter Citrine endorsed Lord Beaverbrook's "Tanks for Russia" stunt in another show of wartime solidarity. Citrine had been a leading opponent of prewar Communist attempts to take control of British trade unions.

Proper organisation, that is.

That's what you get when you combine a "Rolls Royce" civil service with Trabant ministers. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

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Eighty years ago this week after the swift liberation of France and Belgium, the Allied advance begins to bite into serious German resistance with thrusts towards Arnhem and Aachen tinyurl.com/yyfnyfkh

He may have fantasised of becoming father-in-law to the Queen of England.

"We cannot consider changes in the government while we are in the throes of battle." Chamberlain earned Dalton's contempt, "determined....to stick on – like a dirty old piece of chewing gum on the leg of a chair’. Andrew David Stedman

Doubtless Beaverbrook had insinuated that he'd already brought down one wartime PM and expected to be rewarded for not bringing down Chamberlain.