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THE LOWLANDER - LONG AND WET
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From the woods at Afferden to Iwo Jima, and on to the balcony in Casablanca, there's no holding back when it comes to the Editor's choice in the latest editions of The Lowlander. Andy and Merryn dive in to find out what's been happening with the 52nd Lowland Division this week, in 1945...
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The Lowlander Division's WWII Campaign
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From 1944 to 1945, the 52nd Lowlander 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.
Introduction to 'The Lowlander' Newsletter
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Hello, Andy. Hello, Maren. Hello, hello. We are back again with the Lowlander, picking out our favourite articles and news updates from the newsletter that was sent out to the Men of the 52nd Lowlander Division between the 26th of February and 3rd of March, 1945. Yeah, there was all sorts tucked into the Lowlander this week. We've got bits and pieces without a date, although I think the content will tell us which folder they should have been in, and plenty to review in Europe for
Global War Updates: New Conflicts Emerge
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certain. But what else is going on in the war this week?
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This is the week that Iran declared war on Japan. Saudi Arabia declared war on Germany and Japan. The Lebanon declared war on Germany and Japan. Syria declared war. There's a bit of a theme going on here. The US bombarded the Ryukyu Islands for 48 hours straight, and this was also the week in which Roosevelt reported to Congress on the Yalta Conference, and I think we're going to hear about that.
00:01:34
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shortly. He was acknowledging his paralytic illness in public when he opened his speech by saying, I hope you'll pardon me for this unusual posture sitting down during my presentation, but I know you'll realize it makes it a lot easier for me not to have to carry about 10 pounds of steel around on the bottom of my legs, which I think was a surprise to some people. So that's what was going on in
Operation Grenade: Strategic Movements and Outcomes
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the rest of the world. Shall we find out what the jocks are up to?
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Yeah. I mean, this week they're doing exactly the same as what they were last week. So they're stuck in and around Afton Woods. So that's the left hand side of Operation Veritable. The brigades have swapped around. Some people that were in the line last week are now in reserve.
00:02:15
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and they're just waiting for the effects of the American 9th Army which punched through during Operation Grenade to take effect and what that will do is cause the Germans to pull out of those positions in front of them, in front of Afton Woods and from the Castile Blyonbeak who we talked about last week, this castle that sticks out into the outline, they'll eventually pull out of their midweek and then the jocks will be able to start moving forward cautiously to take the ground that they were meant to take on around the 18th of February.
00:02:44
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Good, so we're all going in the right direction? I think so. In which case, let's get started.
River Roar Successes and Luftwaffe Challenges
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26th February 1945 Link-up of roar bridgeheads. The American offensive across the River Roar continued to go very well. The initial 21 bridgeheads have been joined into one which stretches for a distance of 25 miles along the east bank of the river.
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Progress to the east too is very satisfactory. Urich has been cleared and advance troops are now five miles from the river along the road to Cologne only 18 miles ahead. Perhaps the most important gain has been the capture of the fortress town of Durin. This has been practically cleared and US troops are three miles beyond. Again advancing down the road to Cologne enemy opposition is still described as light or moderate but the Luftwaffe has made determined efforts to interfere with the crossing on Saturday night.
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American anti-aircraft gunners shot down 14 of the 30 planes taking part. The Canadian First Army has made some advances in the centre of the front and forward trips are less than a mile from the little junction of Wiese. General Patton's men have now cleared up the enemy pocket between Prรผm and Echtenacht, have crossed the Prรผm River and two substantial bridgeheads over the Saar, 10 miles south of the German town of Trier. The Volksdurm here are reported in action and a number of prisoners have been taken.
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Right, so I've got two things there very briefly. I'm glad you've cleared up the pronunciation of visa because I always pronounced it wheeze. And the second I suspect that's what the jocks called it. And the second thing is, how do you define a bridgehead? Well, it's any any crossing over a wet gap. Which is a river, basically, or a river or lake or something like that, but anything long and wet, basically.
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it's actually established once you establish yourself on the enemy bank yeah so yeah so when they say that there were 21 bridge heads there were 21 individual crossings i can imagine in my mind's eye i mean we've actually got a map on this page which doesn't help very much even it's not bad map but if i imagine 21 bridge heads i'm almost imagining 21 roads that peter out onto a river bank and then hop over the river and then pick up on the other side
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is probably a mixture of things, a lot of those depending on how quickly after they've launched the attack. So if it's a bridge that's already intact, that's a ready-made bridgehead. And you just literally use that bridge that's across the river, but a lot of them would have been blown up or demolished and whatever before they got there.
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the bridgehead crossing might have been done by by a salt boat or by a full LVT landing vehicle tank you know these sort of amphibious vehicles or it could have been done by sort of yeah a small salt craft or something like that and then very quickly after that there'll be some form of temporary equipment bridging putting in which could be some of your basic equipment bridging and then working the way up to something like a bailey bridge which would cross that and that would be your bridgehead
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So 21 different bridge crossings, there'll be a mixture of ones which are just, you know, there's no bridge there and they've just created their own bridgehead. Some of them will be, and they'll normally be supporting a particular unit, say a battalion or a brigade and then a division.
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So when he's written here that 21 bridgeheads have been joined into one that stretches for a distance of 25 miles, what he means is there are 21 occasions on which the Allies have crossed a wet gap, and now they have nothing to worry about in terms of from one end of the line to the other for 21 miles. Yeah, there's no Germans in between them now. It may only be a couple of miles deep into enemy territory, but it's all joined up.
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Okay, well that will make sense.
Iwo Jima and Manila: Pivotal Pacific Battles
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26th February 1945, substantial gains on Iwo Jima. In spite of the furious Japanese resistance, the American Marines have made good progress on Iwo.
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They have advanced up to 500 yards across the island and are halfway across the main airfield. On Luzon, the last Japanese have been eliminated in Manila. A further 3,000 civilians have been released as a result. I mean, do you know when Iwo Jima was finally cleared? Well, this is why I kind of picked this out because I was sitting here scratching my brain going,
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This February, 1945, end of February, it feels a bit early to say that everything was done and dusted. It is exactly one month from the 26th of February. So it's the 26th of March is finally when it's cleared and they've declared it done. And I think there was even the odd little straggler dotted around Ireland after that. But yeah, I mean, they famously, they capture Mount Suribachi and they raise the flag on the 23rd of Great, which is, of course, a very famous photograph of the US Marines raising the
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And that's a whole, that's a whole podcast in itself. But it's another whole month really until the place is finally cleared. Okay then, in which case the jocks are getting an insight about what's going on, but there's a bit more to do. Second of March 1945, they're rolling in.
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Some measure of the Hamming the Germans are taking is given by the number of prisoners captured by the Americans on Wednesday. 2,600 surrendered to the 3rd Army, 1,800 to the 9th and 1,200 to the 1st. Since the offence have opened, the name's total bag has been 13,000.
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That's a lot of prisoners all at once. Can you imagine being the Quartermaster having to sort out some extra food for that little lot?
Logistical Hurdles with German POWs
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Well, exactly. And it does become a logistical nightmare. There's just more and more prisoners rolling in, especially after the rain crossing. And once they close the sort of the rear pocket and all those sort of things.
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So yeah, but it's an increasing problem as they get further into Germany when larger, larger forces start to surrender. How do you feed them? How do you clothe them? How do you shelter them and all the rest of them? Yeah. I'm wondering what the List Logistics Plan looks like and how far back in time there start to be two trains of thought. One about how to push resources forward and the second one about, well, how do we cope with all the prisoners we're going to take?
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Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't know that the large quantities on a sort of company battalion brigade level, they each have their own sort of systems. They have a way of filtering them back. But once they get to sort of division level, when you're capturing thousands of men, it's normally your sort of rear area troops within the core that will set up a pen. And it's literally a pen, it's like a fence down the area.
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yeah and it's set out and they've got standards and things they have to do so but how they scale it and how they anticipate how many are they going to capture obviously once you're into germany you expect to capture more but yeah god it's it's it must be a bit of a headache logistics always a nightmare second of march 1945 two views on yalta
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The House of Commons yesterday endorsed the Crimea Conference decisions by 413 votes to none, with 30 abstentions.
Post-War European Boundaries Debate
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The debate was rounded off with speeches by Mr Atlee and the Foreign Secretary. The former maintained that the Germans could not complain at being transported, seeing how wildly they had practiced this on other peoples. He also wants to see the enemy making reparations of kind. For example, if timber is needed for British houses, the Germans can supply it. Before the San Francisco Conference, which may settle the future of mankind for centuries, there will be a meeting of Commonwealth representatives in London.
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There's a lot in there. For a start, OK, so we know what Yalta's all about, don't we? Well, it may be worth for our one listener at their experience, roughly what Yalta is. It's dwindled to one now. OK, so Yalta was when the big three got together to try and work out what the heck they were going to do with the world after the war was over. The big three being, of course. Oh, the big three being the Americans. Yep. And the British. Yep.
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and the Soviets and and the the fourth was not invaded well okay so who do you think is the fourth it's uh it's uh it's everybody's favorite Charles de Gaulle
00:11:08
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Well, exactly. And actually, the reason I put a big line around this one and said, let's read this one out, is that there is so much that's being covered in Churchill's speech to the Commons, that that's probably the reason why there were 30 abstentions. Almost nobody agreed with the idea that there got to be a firm line on who was going to look after what, who was going to be responsible for what. And for example, our friend up in
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in Berwick, Sir William Beveridge, he was one of the first to say, look, it's all very good and well, we've got to make sure Poland could get on our own two feet again. But let's not encourage Poland to extend westward into territories that are now German and presumably will still be occupied by German citizens. He was one of the first to say, look, it's not everybody was on the side of the Nazis. Yeah, and I think it's interesting you bring up Poland, because this is really the rub about Yalta, isn't it?
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Yeah, it is. But the reason there were abstentions was more along the lines of Churchill had tried to cram everything in. He spoke for, I think, four and a half, nearly five hours and all. He actually asked for a break during the speech or planned one in which is fairly unusual at the time. But what they were trying to do in the speech was to cover off exactly who was going to be responsible for what and which reparations were going to be made by whom, where and when.
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Yeah, so there was a lot going on. Yeah, it's funny because they decided they're not going to invite Ed to go, but he can come to the Potsdam Conference. Yeah. Because of course they agree at the altar that they can have a French zone within occupied Germany. Yeah. But it really is. This is where the Poles get absolutely hammered.
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hammered. And actually, it turns out that Churchill and the West are a little bit too trusting of Stalin, who they still think is a friend. He's a friend. Yeah. And of course, it was also about the formation and operation of the new United Nations, which makes it sound like Marvel Universe versus the other one. I can never remember which ones. DC or something ridiculous. Yeah. So it's the former League of Nations becomes the United Nations. Yeah.
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oh i'll tell you the other thing that happened during this speech was um there there was in fact here in the lowlander he mentions them before the san francisco conference well most people would know where san francisco was but one of um one of the the great axis to bear on on the parts of several politicians during this speech was why do we always have to go somewhere we've heard of why can't we just bring it to britain and go somewhere like dumbart nokes or britain woods i think
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I think the answer is very
Allied POWs' Forced March: A Grim Journey
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obvious, isn't it? It really is, isn't it? 27th February 1945 British Prisoners The two and a half thousand British and Dominion prisoners released by the Russian advance are due to arrive in Odessa today. 70 tonnes of comforts have been sent to the port by the Red Cross
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Some information is also available about others less fortunate who were moved before the Red Army could reach them. The destination of those in Stalag 344 is unknown, but those in Stalag 8A have been divided between camps at Castle and Nuremberg, and those in 8C between Castle and Hanover. Well you know what this is about, don't you?
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Yeah, this is the marches. It's called the March, or the Great March West, the Long March, the Black March, the Death March. It gives you another name for it. I mean, this is where the Germans decide they want to move as many Western Allied prisoners of war away from the Soviet advance. And I think there's about 257,000 Allied prisoners that are moved of
00:15:06
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that were in the East, sorry, but about 80,000 of them have been moved and they were forced to march hundreds and hundreds of miles from basically East Germany to West Germany. It was just a bad idea that was made worse, wasn't it? Well, it was awful and they weren't properly provisioned. There was no food in terms of numbers of deaths and casualties. They reckon, I mean, the temperature has got down to about as low as minus 25 in some places in Eastern Europe. And the weather was particularly horrible.
00:15:36
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Of the US prisoners that were moved, there was about 93,000 of them moved, about 1,121 died. And in British Commonwealth or Dominion troops, there's no accurate records, but they reckon it was around 2,200 of them died on the march itself. Well, that's far too many. Yes. 27th of February, 1945. News out of Scotland.
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According to Mary Hill, Mr. JG Kidd, the Registrar General, has some very interesting things to say about Scotland's vital statistics. Women in Scotland are marrying today at a higher rate than ever before. But he brightly adds, we still have a surplus and there are enough to go around. Because women are property, Marin.
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Well, I can imagine the jocks putting vital statistics into the conversation there and not even getting into the end of the paragraph. Yeah, I mean, I don't really know what they're trying to say here. There's plenty of women, don't panic, they'll still be there when you get home. It's different times, I think.
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I say Atkins, there's a piece of pepper flooding over there on that field. Or if you trot and fetch it, will you man? Right you are, sir. Back in a minute. Here you go, sir. Now then, yes, Atkins, gosh darn it man, this looks like propaganda.
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What is it doing, Atkins? I thought you said you wanted a propaganda, sir. Up close, like. Damn it, ma'am. This is serious. Propaganda, Atkins. Propaganda. Looks proper smooth to me, sir. Can I have it when you finish? October the 11th to the 14th. Raw triangle walking with the jocks. This is important, ma'am. Fetch me a pigeon. Cool, cool. Atkins!
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3rd March 1945 American watch on the Rhine The situation in the Western Front is changing hourly as the 9th Army drives in its headlong pursuit of retreating enemy. The extent of its victory was disclosed yesterday afternoon by the lifting of the security blackout.
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By then, one call mid-switch eastwards from Munchen to Gladbach captured the previous day. In Munchen, our allies discovered crows of dead civilians in conditions inspired no doubt as much by the ineffectiveness of Hitler's defences, including the newly evacuated tank ditches, as by the speed of the American onslaught.
00:18:27
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Now, there's an awful lot more in this article. I think it goes down at the end and it says, at Stralin, there are only 10 miles from British troops battling on the Atherton visa line, which you know the jocks are going to pronounce Atherton-weeze line. So the whole article is setting out what's going on in Operation Veritable. And it takes up about half the page. But I stopped after the first five words because American Watch on the Rhine,
00:18:52
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Does this not remind you of Wachtam Rhein? Well, I think that might be what they're trying to do. Because you know where Wachtam Rhein is from, do you? No. So Wachtam Rhein, most people know it from the film Casablanca, but it was a poem that was written by Schneckenberger
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in 1840 and it was sung to music but written by Karl Wilhelm. He wrote it in 1854. It's a thunderous call for all Germans to rush and defend the German Rhine and to ensure that no enemy sets his foot on the shore of the Rhine. What's a better way for that?
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It's a bit late for that, but there's a scene in Rick's Cafe in Casablanca, it's one of my points, when the band is ordered to play La Marcelets to concert the Germans singing Die Wacht am Rhoy. So that's what the Germans are singing. That's what the Germans are singing. I've got the Marcelets bit because that's the tearjacker, isn't it?
00:19:53
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Yeah, yeah. The bumper fact for today's episode, I suppose, is there's a moment and it's less than a nanosecond when Rick has to nod from the balcony down to the band to start playing. And the anecdote goes that he went off to the director and said, what's my motivation here? What's my motivation? He was told to record it. At the end of the day, there was no orchestra who was nodding out or anything.
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And then the director turned around to him and said, can you just nod at the band, all right? But if you watch it, and if you play it back, and if you get a bit weird about it, if you watch him play it back, he looks completely lost. It doesn't look like old Bobbie's acting at all. Yeah, I mean, their actors are not rocket scientists for a very good reason, aren't they? Absolutely.
Journalist George Blake's Visit to the Division
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First of March 1945, George Blake takes a look at us. George Blake, the Scots journalist, novelist and broadcaster, has sent us this note on his recent visit to the division.
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For nearly a week now, it's been my privilege to cruise around the division, talking about home and home affairs to such troops as had time to listen. I now know one road up to the front as well as I know the spittle of Glen Shee, and I've been privileged to study Dutch architecture in all its forms, from a mind barn to a dugout. My only regret is that the inevitable difficulties of transport and battle conditions did not allow me to meet more of the lads.
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What good my visit has done, it is not for me even to guess, but I can tell you what it's done for me.
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Wherever I went, it was to meet patience, good humour and always keenness and intelligence in questions and discussion. It honestly seemed to me that the open-mindedness of the soldier puts the average civilian to shame and I intend to tell him so when I get back. Keep it up and bring it back with you. It will be needed in post-war Britain. There are lots of things I'm going to tell him at home, to the point of making myself a confounded nuisance.
00:22:16
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They are, I hope, going to hear a good deal more than they've heard so far of your fighting record from walker and onwards of the conditions in which you live, of the odds and ends you need to make life more tolerable, and of the survival in you of the traditions of a fine division. It is time, I think you'll agree, that the 52nd was put right on the map. In future letters from home, I shall reply to some of the questions raised during my tour.
00:22:42
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Meanwhile, good luck, good hunting and many thanks. George Blake. Well, I couldn't agree any more with George there. Do we know who George Blake is, Mary? Yes, we know who George Blake is. He was the Scots journalist, journalist, novelist and broadcaster and the author, of course, of The Inimitable Mountain and Flood.
00:23:03
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And what is Mountain Flood? Well, Mountain Flood is the official unofficial history of the 52nd Lowland Division, following them all the way through from, I think it's September? Is it right the way through to May? No, it starts 1939 when he describes the territorial, because it was the Territorial Division, which was mobilised in 1939. Okay, but in September 1939? Yeah, she does a little bit of preamble because, of course, George himself
00:23:32
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was an alumni of the 52nd Lowland Division. He had fought in Gallipoli. He was actually in the Argyll and Southern Highlanders, which at that time was part of the 52nd Lowland. And he remained active in the sort of associations and various things after the war, after the First War. And then as it came into the Second World War, he was a very well-known journalist and author. And he had some ties with the division still, and he kept in contact with them.
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They also did some work for the Ministry of Information, he did some films on Scotland and his kind of role was to be a conduit between Scottish soldiers and Scottish people, sort of telling each side of them what was going on in the front and at home and keeping morale and stuff like that up.
00:24:19
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He was also a champion of the working classes. He was famous for a novel he wrote in 1935 called The Shipbuilders, which is a real socially aware book about the hardships and the struggles of the working class in Scotland. He was also a pro to a Scottish nationalist as well, although he was very supportive of the British war effort. So he maintained contact with the division and then at the end of the war, the
00:24:45
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commander of the 52nd, General Hickwell-Smith, asked him to write the division's history. Yeah, I tell you what, so when the jocks see this chap wandering up the, you know, spit-leg-lend shero to the front, I wonder how many people would have known who it was coming to see them, because, and I think this is worth pointing out, it's not like they've come away from wall-to-wall television at home.
00:25:10
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They come from a time, well, this was a time when newspapers and magazines were far more important and radio broadcasts were far more important. Of course, he was broadcasting on radio. But at the top of the page here, so this article takes up just the right-hand column of the back sheet of the Lowlander.
00:25:30
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There's a tiny wee little caricature of a man with little spectacles positioned on his nose and he's got the most dumpy cauliflower cabbage head you've ever seen. That is, if you see a picture, maybe we'll put a picture on Twitter. That is what he looks like. Yes, but the only official description I could find of him anywhere from the period was that he was a thick set buttering ram of a man with a frowning brown and unruly hair.
00:25:59
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That sounds like him, yeah. That sounds like Trump. I mean, of course, he was nearly killed in Atherton Woods. He was doing one of his talks. He writes about it in Mountain Flood. I think he probably bored everybody for the rest of his life about it. But he was doing a little chat with some of the troops at the north end of Atherton Woods where, of course, the jocks were. And they were shelled by some heavy German guns from the Siegfried Line. And he managed to dodge out of the way and get into cover. Of course, he was a soldier. He was fully trained. He knew how to take cover.
00:26:28
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And he survived to write the book, which we all know and love today. I think that if you're going to bore everybody around you for the rest of your life with how you nearly got killed in Atherton Woods, that makes you a very special kind of spirit animal, doesn't it? Yes.
Reflections on Britain's Historical Stance
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And finally, we go to this week's Thought for the Day from the 28th of February, 1945. Britain is a solitary great power which has never injured the vital interest of another European people
00:26:58
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A German, Wilhelm de Bellius, rating in 1922. Now then. So the thought for the day is fairly straightforward isn't it? Yeah I mean it's not true but but yeah it's I can understand what he's trying to say yeah.
00:27:14
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OK, OK, so you may or may not be surprised to know that there is more to it than what we've got printed in in the Lowland because I think I think the editor is is sometimes overly selective in what he presents to the jocks. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. OK, so Debellius was a professor of English studies at the University of Berlin. He'd written a book. He'd written a book called
00:27:34
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England, which was not surprising, a history of England written in German in 1922. And this is kind of the point, it was translated by a woman called Mary Agnes Hamilton. And she was the parliamentary private secretary to Clement Attlee. And when he helped write her obituary much later on,
00:27:57
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He described her as one of the ablest women who ever entered the House of Commons. I mean, she was giving talks and lectures on current affairs and professional careers. She was the first person to present The Week in Westminster for the BBC in 1929. She was a pretty poopy woman, but she did a lot of translation from German to English and this was one book that she had a good go at.
00:28:24
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The editor has been pretty selective here. I'm going to read what De Beleus actually wrote. In German. You can have it in German in one, but I think the listener, the sole listener would probably appreciate it more in English. Just this time, yes. Just this time. All right. So her translation reads.
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The fact remains that Britain is a solitary great power that has never injured the vital interest of another European people by annexation and that it is a fact of immeasurable moral effect in a period dominated by the principle of nationality.
00:29:01
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The editor has taken off the words by annexation. But then she goes on and de Bellius wrote this as well. Britain is also the single country in the world that, looking after its own interest with meticulous care, has at the same time something to give others. The single country where patriotism does not represent a threat or challenge to the rest of the world.
00:29:24
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In fact, Britain is the solitary great power with a national programme that, egotistic through and through, at the same time promises to the world as a whole something the world passionately desires, order, progress and eternal peace.
00:29:41
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Well, that is slightly different from what they've said here. It's a little deeper, I think, isn't it? But I think we should forgive the editor sometimes for trying to get a few words on the page. Yeah, I think so. All right. OK, well, I think that we should wrap it up there for this week. I think that's a good idea. Yeah. All right. OK, see you this time. Yeah, bye bye. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Lowlander.
00:30:08
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The Lowlander was written, produced and presented by Andy Anderson and Mirren Walters. This was a hellish good production.
00:30:36
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And now we go to the classified football results for the week commencing the 26th of February 1945 English League North Cup Aberamham-Nill, Bristol City 2 Aston Villa 2, Northampton 2 Bath 4, Cardiff 5 Birdie 4, Manchester City 2 Coventry-Nill, West Brom 3 Hartley Pool 2, Newcastle 1 Leicester 1,
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Nottingham Forest 1. Levels 4, Swansea 0. Manchester 93, Oldham 2. Rochdale 0, Blackburn 8. Walsall 0, Birmingham 2. Wolverhampton 1, Stoke 3. York 6, Bradford 1. English League North. Accrington 4, Blackpool 1. Bradford City 5,
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Rotherham 3 Barnley 4 Barnsley 0 Crew 4 Bolton 1 Darlington 1 Middersborough 0 Doncaster 2 Chesterfield 1 Everton 4 Chester 1 Huddersfield 0 Darby 4 Hull 3 Grimsby 1 Leeds 4 Sheffield Wednesday 3 Lincoln 3
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Lincoln 3, Notts County 2 Portville 4, Stockport Nil Preston 2, Halifax Nil Southport Nil, Liverpool 5 Sunderland Nil, Gateshead 2 Rexxham 2, Tramirovers 1 English League, South Cup Aldershot Nil, QPR 2 Bradford 2, Millwall 2
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Charlton 1 Crystal Palace 0 Clapton Orient 1 Arsenal 3 Fulham 5 Brighton 2 Reading 1 Portsmouth 0 Southampton 12 Lytton 3 Tottenham 4 West Ham 0 Watford 0 Chelsea 2 Scottish Lee Cup South
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Albion 2, 3rd Larnach 3 Celtic 3, Foulbrook 2 Then Barton Nil, Hartes Nil Hamilton 2, Martin 6 Hibernian 1, Rangers 1 Partik 2, Plaid Nil Queenspark 4, Airdrionians 1 St Mirian 1, Motherwell 3 Scottish, North East League Aberdeen 2,
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And that concludes the classified football results for the week commencing the 26th February 1945.
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in there and they just saw the bloody Germans off. They were hellish goods.