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THE LOWLANDER - PULL UP A SANDBAG
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Get comfy. Find out what The Lowlander is, who was reading it this week in 1944, and why these first editions are so dog-eared and soggy - as the attack moves forward on Walcheren Island. Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters get straight into the stories and snippets being shared among the men of the 52nd Lowland Division ...
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Introduction to 'The Lowlander' Newsletter
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Speaker
From 1944 to 1945, the 52nd Lowland Division is fighting its way across Northwest Europe. The writing is on the wall, but it's also on the page. The Army Education Branch sends a newsletter out to thousands of men, all pulling together, pushing the enemy back. This newsletter is called The Lowlander.
00:00:42
Speaker
Hello Andy. Hello Mary. Hello, hello. This very first week we are looking at editions of The Lowlander that were sent out to the men between the 15th and 19th of November 1944. But before we start picking out the articles that catch our eye we should explain a little bit more about what The Lowlander is.
00:01:02
Speaker
Yeah I think that's a very good idea. Well the Lowlander was a divisional newspaper, well really a news sheet, and it was produced by the division's army education branch.
Major GL Wilde and the Army Education Branch
00:01:11
Speaker
Now we don't know that much about the army education branch itself within the division and the day-to-day running of the of the branch wasn't really documented very well but we do know there was a major GL Wilde in charge and he was the officer commanding for the
00:01:26
Speaker
for the Army Education Branch in the 52nd. So I'm assuming that he's got something to do with that. And the editor and his colleagues would have been working out of the 52nd Lowland Divisions headquarters at Bergen-Upsum in the Netherlands. And I found the Lowlander, when I was in the National Archives, I was looking for various different regiments of the 52nd Division's war diaries. And I found this thing just sitting there, it was called the Lowlander. But while we're talking about it, maybe you should just take a second
00:01:53
Speaker
to describe what the loaner actually looks like.
Content and Purpose of 'The Lowlander' Newsletter
00:01:57
Speaker
Okay, so the Lowlander is a double-sided sheet of paper. It's slightly longer than A4, I suppose, and at the top on the front side, as it were, there's a, I don't know, fifth of a page banner with the 52nd Loan Division's badge, the St Andrews badge, and then on both sides there are updates, odd press releases, there's news articles, jottings from home, there's the weekly football results, there's all sorts of... Well, we'll talk about the football results later.
00:02:23
Speaker
Yeah, alright. There are maps and cartoons. There's everything in there that you might imagine to keep a few jocks entertained, educated and informed. It's about keeping them up to speed really on what's going on and what's going on at home. Yeah, but it's not just news or jottings from home. One of the Lowlanders' main tasks was to share consistent news about what was happening in the war. Which comes back to the whole thing about why are we fighting, I suppose. So it's a morale booster as much as anything else.
00:02:49
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. I mean, there's plenty of funny little stories in there to keep people's chins up. It's probably a good idea to fess up here. We both get excited about this, you because it's the 52nd and me because it's all about the written word and how persuasive that can be and what people write and why.
Comparison with Other Service Newspapers
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Speaker
We might get into some of that nuance later. But it's not the only service newspaper in circulation during the war, is it?
00:03:12
Speaker
No, it was quite common actually. The South African forces in the Middle East had something called the weekly Springbok. Canadian troops in Europe had the Maple Leaf, which was printed daily. Indian troops had something called Fauji Akbar. And the 7th Armoured Division newspaper had the Jaboa Times, and we can come to that maybe next year.
00:03:31
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was quite regionalised. There was, I mean, you'd got victory for British soldiers in India and then you'd even got things like the land girl back in Britain for the women's land army. And I think there was one called the rooster for RAF Shetland. But also from the Axis perspective, this wasn't just an allied concept.
00:03:48
Speaker
So the Italians had something called Il Piave Cetimannale dei Sordati Italiani con Lottara Armata and the Germans had several divisional newspapers. One in particular that I can think of was called Marine Frontsaitum and that sort of devolved into frontsiting the North Sea, Canal Custer, Vestas. So you'd have regional newspapers exactly like you've got syndicated newspapers today. It was an entire industry of frontline reading. And there was me thinking the Lawlander was special.
00:04:17
Speaker
I know, special is a very good word, but it's only special by affiliation, I'm afraid. We're not going to be reading the whole thing, are we? No, we're not going to read the whole thing each time. We're going to pick bits and pieces out that really appeal to us, the stories that catch our eye as we
The 52nd Lowland Division's Role in WWII
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look through. We've got about 30 weeks worth leading right up to and just beyond the other side of surrender in May 1945. But before we do dig into the first editions of The Lowlander,
00:04:47
Speaker
Can you please explain and I can't believe I'm saying this can you explain what the 52nd lowland division is please. Make sure my seams are on the right side.
00:05:02
Speaker
Well, what is the 52nd Lowland Division? The 52nd Lowland Division was a British infantry division which served in northwest Europe from around about October 1944 through to May 1945 and in fact they went on after the war to serve in Germany until 1946. Now the name suggests they're Lowlanders, they're from the Lowlands of Scotland and they were a territorial division who mobilised just before the Second World War.
00:05:25
Speaker
roundabout August 1939, although lots of the guys within the division had already been serving in the various different regiments and units that made up the division.
00:05:35
Speaker
I won't go into all the details of who all the regiments are, you'll get to know them as we go along with the Lowlander for the next 30 odd weeks. But they've had a bit of a strange war at this point. So they, as I said, they mobilised just before the outbreak of the Second World War after Dunkirk. They sent over a couple of British in a Canadian division over to France and landed at Cherbourg. So they actually fought in France in 1940 for about 10 days, which second BEF. So before, thankfully, they were all pulled back.
00:06:05
Speaker
They came back to the UK in the summer of 1940 and they were put onto invasion duties in Norfolk and then back up to Scotland. Now, early 1942, the British Army didn't really know what he was doing. Things weren't going well, so they decided what we need is a mountain train division. So if we have to go and fight anywhere in the world with those mountains, we've got a division that can do that. And the 52nd lowland, we're just sitting around in Scotland, so
00:06:29
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So they were decided, well, they were the ones. And they spent two years in and around the Cairngorns trialing and developing mountain and arctic warfare.
00:06:39
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and the division was entirely able to move as a division without any vehicles. It had Indian mule carriers and it developed mountain warfare. Now as it turns out they were never used for that role and in fact they played a vital part of what's known as Operation Fortitude North which is the deception plan for D-Day and the presence of the 52nd Lowland Division in Scotland
00:07:04
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held a number of German divisions that were based in Scandinavia, Norway, where there was mountains and they expected them to land.
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Speaker
Not too long after that, they were then taken off the mountain road. They became part of the Allied Airborne Army as air transportable infantry. And actually at one point, they were on the runway with the engines running to fly into Arnhem as part of Operation Market Garden to support the first Airborne Division in their fight there. Thankfully, that was called off. And actually pretty shortly after that, they were then mobilized as a conventional line infantry division
00:07:38
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and they sailed the way to North West Europe landing at Ostend in the middle of October 1944. Well, that's quite complex. It's quite a lot, isn't it? But you've been taking notes, so it's fine. You can check them later. There'll be a test later, I'm sure. All right, OK. Well, with all that in mind, and bearing in mind that I'm sure you'll keep us up to speed on where they are and what they're doing all the way through, shall we start with the first week's addition to the calendar? Well, I think we've been talking for long enough, so yeah.
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Speaker
15th November 1944, the 2nd Army strikes again. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, British troops launched their new offensive to clear the German pocket in Holland, to the west of the River Maas. Our troops went into the attack in an area 3 miles square. 400 guns sent 2,000 shells a minute into enemy strong points. The general direction of this new thrust is to the southeast of Einhoven, around the village of Nรคr der Wiet.
00:08:36
Speaker
There have been indications of a German withdrawal here, windmills have been demolished to burden us using them as observation posts.
Challenges in Reading 'The Lowlander'
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On Monday our patrols entered Meifel without encountering resistance. However strong rear guards and minefields can be expected and of course difficult marshy country and worse weather.
00:08:54
Speaker
So I've got a couple of observations straight off here. Number one, they don't make it easy, do they? I mean, I know that we'll put up some snippets of this so people can see what one of these looks like, obviously. But even though the place names are written in capital letters, which is kind of sort of industry standard, there'll be a proper army term of that, it's really hard to read because the editor doesn't write.
00:09:20
Speaker
Why didn't you realize that 80 years later I was going to be trying to read it out live on a podcast? I have no idea, but it's hard work. I mean, some of it's hard work. I do know it gets better. The other thing I'm distracted by on this, our first page, is a big map at the bottom of the sheet. It's not a very good map, I have to say.
00:09:45
Speaker
In terms of being able to find your way around, I wouldn't want to use it in the dark. But having said that, for the jocks who have not long been in the country, they will know where they are, they'll know the names of places on this map, and it suffices, doesn't it?
Historical and Military Contexts in 'The Lowlander'
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Speaker
Well, yeah, and these are names that they would have heard of. So Eindhoven they would have heard of after Market Garden, of course, because that was in the news and all the rest. Also, it gives them more context of what the other people in the British Army are doing because, of course, the Second Army is the army that they're part of, or they will be not just the minute because they're actually under the Canadians. But that's let's not complicate that. But yeah, the maps are really helpful. And I think I think as we go through the low end of the maps do start to improve. So I don't know if they sack the the cartographer and get a new one in.
00:10:31
Speaker
OK, and the other thing that I mean, just just to finish this off, the very first article we read out the very first sentence starts with at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. So presumably the editor or the team or whoever is putting things together has got access to information and is allowed to distribute it relatively quickly.
00:10:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's interesting and when you go into the war diaries you do see update reports, some intelligence reports which are secret, also some other stuff that's actually freely available. I suspect this would have been part of a general briefing they would have issued to troops. Okay, well that makes sense. That's the first one down and dusted. Shall we crack on? Yep. Clackity-ping. Clackity-ping. 16th of November 1944.
00:11:19
Speaker
Britain and the Netherlands. Many have been the associations between the Dutch and British peoples in the past, in peace and in war. From time to time it's hoped to include short articles showing how closely our histories have been interwoven. Here is just one example taken from a letter recently sent to The Daily Telegraph by Brigadier Law.
00:11:41
Speaker
At the time of the Peninsular War in 1810 to 1811, he wrote, a force, including my grandfather's regiment, the 71st Highland Light Infantry, was sent to Holland and landed on Walcrenn.
00:11:55
Speaker
Disease, particularly scurvy, soon broke out. Food was bad and scarce, and there was no quinine. Every morning, the men were paraded and had to drink sarsaparilla out of a bucket. But after some months, the force was withdrawn. It's believed that traces of this earlier and unsuccessful landing on Walkron may have been found during our recent operations there. Should this be so, any reports of discoveries would be appreciated by the editor.
00:12:25
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Now where have we heard of walker-in before? You don't think?
00:12:30
Speaker
Well, I mean, we should probably point out to our listeners, this is this was on the 16th of November 1944. So as this as this has been written, the 52nd low-end division or the bulk of the 52nd low-end division is actually on the Walker in Ireland after finishing it early in November. In fact, the landing took place on the 1st of November and pretty much all the German resistance was cleared up by the 8th of November. So this is a week or so past that. And as it turns out, they're not the first.
00:12:58
Speaker
I guess the junks would have been sitting in a wet ditch, or several wet ditches, reading their copies of a lowland. For a lot of the lads, I guess this had been the first time they realised that this wasn't the first time they'd been to Walgreens. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know if many people would have known where Walgreens was, to be honest. In fact, they don't really know where it is nowadays either.
00:13:18
Speaker
But yeah, I mean it's funny how history repeats itself and of course people found out when they were fighting in Normandy and then they moved up through the Somme battlefields and through MEN and all that sort of stuff. So all these things, they keep cropping up time and time again. And there's a direct connection there of course because
00:13:36
Speaker
it mentioned the 71st Highland Light Infantry. Within the division itself there's the 5th Battalion and the 6th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry and also the 1st Battalion of the Glasgow Highlanders which is also a Highland Light Infantry Battalion, confusingly enough. So there's a real connection there which is probably why the editors decided to put this in one of the early editions. Well, that all makes perfect sense!
Focus on Troop Welfare and Morale
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Speaker
17th November 1944
00:14:06
Speaker
The Lowlander Club Room If you're passing through Bergen-Otsum and you get the chance, drop into the Lowlander Club Room next to the Luxor Cinema. It's especially designed for the tired soldier and has comfortable chairs, books to read, games to play and many other home comforts. It's not perfect and there's lots of improvements needed, but it's a place where you can relax without fear of the Sergeant Major surprising you. You can even meet your friends from other units. The scheme is experimental, it's up to you whether it's a success or not.
00:14:36
Speaker
If it is, then we hope to have a similar club room started where the division moves, be that Holland, Germany, Italy or Japan. So that's really quite a caring thing to do then.
00:14:47
Speaker
Well, it's a bit sinister at the end, just mentioning Japan, isn't it? It is a bit. But even so, is this somewhere where, you know, even as a lowly private, you could have gone for half an hour? Yeah, I mean, the Lowlander Club Room itself is really for the lower ranks. So anything that's sergeant and below, although I'm sure anybody would have been able to pop in if they wanted to do cup of tea or a book or whatever. Of course, the officers have the officers' mess and they have their own officer clubs and the senior NCOs and sergeants and sergeant majors, they would have their sergeant's mess. But
00:15:16
Speaker
Yeah, I mean the commander of the 52nd Law Division at the time, Edmund Hickwell Smith, Major General Edmund Hickwell Smith, he was really keen on soldier welfare and in fact it's one of his priorities to make sure that the guys have places to rest, recuperate, get out the line, get, you know, have a cup of tea, have a chill out, relax.
00:15:36
Speaker
And so it's really indicative of how the 52nd Lowland Division approached the welfare of its troops. I mean, it's got the newspaper, it likes to keep them informed. And obviously the 52nd Lowland Clubroom is actually where probably most people would have got hold of a copy of the Lowlander. So it's all part of that welfare thing, which when you read into the 52nd Lowland Division, it might not be exceptional, but they certainly take a real interest in the welfare of the men.
Future Events and Operations
00:16:10
Speaker
I say, Meron, have you read With the Jocks? A Soul to Struggle for Northwest Europe by Peter White? Why, yes, I have, Andy. And would you like to follow in the footsteps of the 50-second loan division? I say, that sounds rather marvelous. Excellent. Then why not come in a better voutour with me, Andy Edgson, and you, Meron Walters, Walking with the Jocks, in October 2024. Pop along to walkingwiththejocks.k.uk, that's walkingwiththejocks.k.uk, to find out more.
00:16:44
Speaker
17th November 1944. Six Allied armies on the move. The whole front in the West has swung into action. From Holland to the Swiss frontier, six armies are battering the defenses with which the Germans hope to stem the Allied flood. On our left flank, General Dempsey's men have practically cleared the enemy from the West Bank of the River Mass opposite Ruhrmond, and here our shells are now falling on German soil.
00:17:12
Speaker
little opposition has been met, though many minds have still to be lifted. Between the British 2nd and the American 1st Armies, the U.S. 9th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Simpson, has reappeared west of Guylandkirchen. This force, which was last heard of at Brest, at quarter to one yesterday afternoon, smashed across the anti-tank ditches, which Hitler's laboured battalions had been furiously excavating.
00:17:38
Speaker
Well, my 52nd long antennae started beeping then. Because you mentioned a town called Galenkarken. Well, it's a city really.
00:17:47
Speaker
Oh, mine went off when I mentioned Roemund as well. Yeah, of course. Yeah, there's two names there. So there's Roemund and Galen Kirken. And we'll do a bit of foreshadowing here. We won't tell you what's going to happen, but it's going to be quite an important part of the 52nd story as we move into 1945. But it's interesting that there's already talking about places that the 52nd will go. And the other crucial thing was, you mentioned it's where the join between the British and the American armies are. And that will be much more important as we get on in the Lowlander.
Economic Conditions During Wartime
00:18:21
Speaker
In a section we call Jottings from Home, 18th November 1944, small businesses reopening in coastal towns between the Humber and Lands End will be offered ยฃ150 loans by the government. That's quite a bit of money. It is. Well, I mean, it's quite a lot of money now. I could do with ยฃ150, but in this classic thing, the minute you talk about money from the olden days, you say, well, how much is that now?
00:18:45
Speaker
ยฃ150 was about, today that would be about ยฃ7,500. But you have to kind of put that into perspective as well, because when you think about how much ยฃ150 would have bought you in 1944, it's still a lot of money. The average net income was around ยฃ380 in Scotland and about ยฃ400 in England, obviously.
00:19:07
Speaker
But that's down to the lower levels of average earnings in Scotland being disproportionate numbers of workers in declining industries like the Dundee Jeep trade and things like that. Yeah and as you imagine when it says the coastal tends to be in the Humber I'm just drawing the line down to how that lands in. I'm assuming that's because most of that seafront area was cleared for the invasion and the invasion scared us up 1940-41.
00:19:33
Speaker
I hadn't thought of that. Well yeah that would make sense because of course people couldn't just visit the seaside where there was beach defences and all sorts of stuff so I should imagine it's kind of a little bit of a booster scheme for those businesses. And the other thing is of course it wages at the time so skilled manual labour would have been on about ยฃ3 a week. Unskilled labour ยฃ2 a week. A painter would have earned about ยฃ4 a week. A professional footballer used to earn ยฃ7 a week.
00:20:01
Speaker
Ah, that's quite a bit. Excuse me to play for Norwich City. 18th November 1944.
Controversial Figures and Events
00:20:13
Speaker
Mr Churchill has called for maximum Jewish cooperation in stamping out the terrorist movements responsible for the death of Lord Moyne. Cool, that's a sentence and a half that is. Yeah, well first question is, who is Lord Moyne?
00:20:27
Speaker
Second question is, how did he die? Well, Lord Moyn was Walter Guinness. He was an MP. First Baron Moyn.
00:20:37
Speaker
He was the British Minister of State in the Middle East. And he opposed the establishment of Jewish army units over there, partly to get this to avoid offending Arab sensibilities. Sharp, take a breath. But even worse than that, he was alleged to have been right at the centre of the blood for trucks scandal. You know about that? Yeah, Blutzer's Island. Yeah, that's right. So there was a guy called Joel Brand who was part of the Jewish-Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee.
00:21:04
Speaker
And he came to the British in April 1944 with a proposal from Adolf Eichmann. The proposal went along the lines of, in short, the Nazis would release up to a million or so Jews in exchange for 10,000 or more trucks and other bits and pieces from the Afghan forces. Brand was arrested and taken to Cairo. And he reported that during one of the interrogation sessions, an Englishman, Moyn, asked him about Eichmann's proposal and then
00:21:33
Speaker
to whatever he said, replied, what can I do with a million Jews? Where can I get them? Yeah, I know. So in Brown's view, that was Lord Moyne. There is some debate about that. But what's not debated is that Moyne was in favor of blood for guilt.
00:21:48
Speaker
Okay, not necessarily all for trucks, but blood for gelt, which is an incredibly bad scene. Although I think the intelligence later on decided that it was most of this was a German trap to try and embarrass us. Anyway, not mine was seen as an architect of of our immigration policy. And he was personally responsible for Britain's Palestine policy at the time. And that led to his assassination.
00:22:11
Speaker
It was the Leahy group. Somebody will tell me if I'm pronouncing that wrong. I pronounce all of these things wrong, don't worry about it. But he was assassinated in Cairo on the 6th of November in 1944. And I know what the assassins said was that the reason they took him out was that he symbolized the British Empire through his presence in Cairo. They weren't in a position to, you know,
00:22:36
Speaker
launched an attack on Churchill, assassinate Churchill. So the second best option for them was to hit Loveland winning Cairo. Well, that was a bit heavy, wasn't it? It was a bit, wasn't it? All out of one sentence. It just gives you an idea of the scope and scale of the information on the stories that they're producing in the Lowlander. It gives an idea of the breadth of education within the division and that they can produce stories less and somebody will understand what they're talking about.
00:23:07
Speaker
Hopefully. 18th November 1944.
Military Leadership Changes
00:23:15
Speaker
Lieutenant General Raymond Wheeler of the US Army is to succeed General Stilwell as Deputy Commander of South East Asia Command. The plane that was carrying Trafford Lee Mallory to his appointment as Commander Air Force's South East Asia Command is missing. Mmm, there's a lot there too. So that's vinegar Jerry Stilwell isn't it?
00:23:33
Speaker
Yes, of course, he was famous for the American commander in Burma fighting the Japanese and deeply unpopular with just about everybody, but pretty effective, I think. And then I'd forgotten, of course, that traffic Lee Mallory went missing. Yes, he did. And of course, he went missing. And what they didn't know in the land at this point is his plane on its flight to Southeast Asia actually crashed not far from Chamonix in the French Alps.
00:24:01
Speaker
killing himself and his wife who was travelling with him. Very sad. That's very sad.
00:24:16
Speaker
For the first time, the British Second Army is fighting in strength on German soil. Its initial tack continues to make headway in clearing the west bank of the River Mass, and advance units are now less than six miles from the frontier town of Venlo. But the main weight has now been thrown against the town of Guylynkirk into the south, roughly two-thirds of the way from Venlo to Aix.
00:24:37
Speaker
At seven o'clock yesterday morning, after sappers and flail tanks had worked all night to breach the minefields before this strongly fortified town, our infantry struck at the ridge of Graham to the north. Five hours later, in a small-scale pincer movement, a second attack was launched from the south. Both have gone well. The more northerly arm has advanced two miles and cut the road from Guylyn Kirk into Heinsberg.
00:25:03
Speaker
Despite fierce German resistance and reinforcements, 400 prisoners have been taken, pillboxes demolished, and 88mm artillery neutralised. Success here will squeeze out a... What's that say? Oh! Success here will squeeze out a potential threat to the US 9th Army immediately to the South.
00:25:26
Speaker
Now, I've made a mistake there, but only because some of this sheet really isn't easy to read, is it? It's not very well reproduced. I mean, I took photographs in the archives, but the actual print quality, and I'm assuming they're using a very basic cryptographic machine in the divisional headquarters. So it does mean that sometimes the words are a bit jumbled, and also sometimes there's spelling mistakes as well. Yeah, and I can never remember how to pronounce A-X, A-I-X, is it A? Yeah.
00:25:53
Speaker
And of course what we're talking about there is Operation Clipper. Now Operation Clipper was the British 30 Corps offensive to take Gallenkirchen and the surrounding area. And they mentioned Gallenkirchen again, which of course we mentioned earlier in the episode. And they also mentioned the German town of Heinzberg. More about that in about a month's time.
00:26:12
Speaker
So this battle was 30 core, it was the 43rd Wessex Infantry Division, which is British, with the American 84th Rail Splitter Infantry Division, and they captured the area there and actually the line, the front line didn't move again until the 52nd Lowland Division moved down there in January 1945.
00:26:36
Speaker
And finally, we're going to do Thought for the
Dissemination and Engagement Strategies
00:26:39
Speaker
Day. Most editions of the Lowlander had a Thought for the Day and we're going to try and pick the one that really catches our eye because there are some religious ones, there are some famous quotes for history. But if you want to read this one out and then we'll have a little look at where it's come from and what it means afterwards.
00:27:00
Speaker
There is no standing still, no going back, we can only go forward, and we should do that in the spirit of the crucified, with her invincible crosses before us. Madame Chiang Kai-shek. You know who she was, don't you? Yes, even I know that is.
00:27:15
Speaker
Yes, she was the wife of Mr. Chiang Kai-shek, who was the leader of the nationalist government in China. Her real name was Sun Mei Ling, but she was known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and she helped to publicise his cause in the West. In the, I think it was the early 1930s, she launched something called the New Life Movement, which is a programme that tried to help the spread of communism by teaching traditional Chinese values instead. She wrote a lot of articles about China for American journals, and in the mid-1940s, I suppose it would have been
00:27:44
Speaker
Yeah, 43, 44. She became the first Chinese and only the second woman to address a joint session of Congress. And she was basically trying to increase support and raise funds for China in its war against Japan. And her efforts resulted in so much financial aid that her name appeared on the US list of the 10 most admired women in the world in 1966, 1967. Wow. She was quite a woman. Yeah, clearly.
00:28:17
Speaker
I think that's a very good point on which to end this first episode of The Lowlander, don't you? Well, we've got plenty to think about. What we'll do is we'll put some of these odds and ends up on Twitter so that people can see what The Lowlander looks like. That's a very good idea. All right, I'll get onto that straight away. And I will see you next time. Yeah, see you next time. Bye. Bye. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Lowlander.
00:28:45
Speaker
The Lowlander was written, produced and presented by Andy Aitchison and Mirren Walters. This was a hellish good production.
00:29:14
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And now we go to the classified football results for the week commencing the 15th of November 1944. English league North Aston Villa 4, property city Nill Barnsley 6, Rollum United 5 Bradford Nill, Darlington 3 Barnley Nill, Atkinson Stanley Nill Burry 2, Liverpool Nill Chester 2, Tramley Rovers 2
00:29:44
Speaker
Derby County 3, Chesterfield 1 Doncaster Rovers 2, Mansfield Town 1 Everton 3, Crue Alexandra 5 Wurmsby Town 1, Sheffield Wednesday 2 Halifax Town 4, Blackpool 2 Hull City 2, Gateshead 3 Leeds United 6, Hartlepool 2 Manchester United 3, Manchester City 2
00:30:12
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Mirrors were nil. Huddersfield Town, 1. Newcastle United, 11. Bradford City, nil. Northampton, 3. Leicester City, 1. Nottingham Forest, 2. Lincoln City, 2. Oldham Athletic, 3. Blackburn Rovers, nil. Preston North, N2. Bolton Wanderers, 3. Sheffield United, 6. Knotts County, nil. Southport, 2. Rochdale, 2.
00:30:41
Speaker
Stoke City 2 Port Vail, Mill Balsall 4, Birmingham 1 Wulff 3, West Bromwich Albion 2 Wrexham 8, Stockport, Mill York City 3, Sunderland 5 English League West Aberammon 1, Bristol City 5 Bath City 4, Cardiff City 2
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Swansea Town 1, Loveless Athletic 2 Scottish League South Albion Rovers 4, Martin 5 Dunbarton 3, Clyde 0 Hamilton 2, Hearts 2 Hips 0, Motherwell 1 Partic Thistle 1, Folkirk 2 Queen's Park 1, Rangers 4 St Mirren 2, Adrianians 1
00:31:39
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3rd R&D 1 Celtic 3 Scottish League North East Dundee in 82 are both 5 East 5th 1, Dunferrlyn 5 Falkirk 1, Dundee 2 Hart Snell, Aberdeen 7 Rangers 2, Wraith Rovers 1 English League South
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Oldershot 3, Luton Town 2, Arsenal 4, Watford 0 Brentford 1, Crystal Palace 2 Brighton Hall of Albion 3, Chelsea 5 Charlton Athletic 1, Queens Park Rangers 2 Clapton Orient 0, Tottenham 2 Fulham 0, Portsmouth 2 Reading 2, Millwall 2 Southampton 2, West Ham 1
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Was that really 11-0 for Newcastle? Yeah, against Bradford. Or Whitewash. That's a lot of football. That's a lot of football. They went in there and they just swallowed the bloody Germans off. They were hellish goods.