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THE LOWLANDER - MORE FISHY BUSINESS
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From derring-do in Manila to herring-do in Scotland, piglets with the RASC, and interjections from both Abraham Lincoln and (IT'S THAT MAN AGAIN!), good old Tommy Handley ... Andy and Merryn dig in deep, to understand the weekly issues of The Lowlander.
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Introduction to The Lowlander
00:00:05
Speaker
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.
00:00:41
Speaker
Hello Andy. Hello Maren. Hello, hello. We are back again and this week we're looking at editions of the Lowlander that were sent out between the 29th of January and the 4th of February 1945. Yes, and we're looking at each edition. They're still double-sided sheets and we'll be checking out the articles or bits and pieces that strike a chord, generally catching up with the men. Now the 52nd Lowlander Division is in northwest Europe but what's going on elsewhere
War Atrocities and Military Movements
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this week?
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Well, a quick overview will tell us that this week is the week that the naval docks in Singapore get flattened by B-29s and the American troops go into Manila. Now that's a really bad scene because while that's going on, the Japanese troops are massacring or something like 100,000 Filipino civilians. They force the women and children onto the front lines as human shields to protect the Japanese positions. And then anyone who survived was murdered, which is horrific. But back in Europe, shall we find out where the docks are, please?
00:01:36
Speaker
Yep. This week, the 52nd low end division is now pretty much properly resting and recuperating after Operation Blackcock. They're still in the Roar Triangle. Some of the units are in the northern part of the triangle just holding the line. Some of the other troops are back sort of in the rear areas and they're refitting mobile laundry and bath units. They're
00:01:57
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changing equipment, they're getting their battle casualty replacements back in, so they've got enough people and they don't know it yet. They're going to be heading back up north to Nijmegen, which is in the Netherlands, ready for something called Operation Veritable, but that's still a couple of weeks away. Okay, quick question for you. When we talk about 52nd Lowland Division at this point,
00:02:18
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How many men are we talking about? Well, the average British infantry division at full rifle strength is around about 16,000, although the 52nd had a few more because they had an extra artillery regiment, the first mountain regiment, I think we mentioned last week anyway. So they've got a little bit more, but of course what you've got to factor in is they've had casualties, they've had people moving on, captured, wounded and all the rest of it. So it fluctuates, but it's around about 16,000, 17,000. Okay, well that answers that one.
00:02:48
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All right, should we get going? Yes, I think we should.
Winter Challenges and Homefront Stories
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29th of January 1945. The weather in the West.
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From the mast down to the voges, the weather is putting a break on operations. In the coldest winter for 50 years, there has been snow almost everywhere. The Americans closing up to the frontiers southeast of St Vith had an extra foot of it to plough through yesterday morning. Further south, the 3rd US Army in Luxembourg has pushed on 4 miles.
00:03:21
Speaker
Snowblizzards are providing cover for the enemy as he regroups on the Moda in northern Alsace. Only the Americans and French squeezing the Colmer pockets report any large-scale activity. From the north, they have edged their way into three villages in a one-mile advance and have also made progress in the south. And on Saturday night, our mosquitoes visited the sorely-tried city of Berlin, and during the day, American heavies and RAF Lancasters wore both out over western Germany.
00:03:51
Speaker
Well, we kind of heard the winter was terrible, but it's actually affecting operations. And of course, as I mentioned last week, Operation Black Hawk, some of the temperatures got down, some people say minus 20, officially it's minus 10, but that's pretty much right across Europe, isn't it?
00:04:05
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It is and what we'll do is we'll post that website again. It is really useful. I know a lot of the weather station information isn't available for kind of that area we're sometimes interested on. Do you know what I mean by the jutty down bit? Yes, I know what the jutty down bit is. So it's the border between the Netherlands and Germany where a lot of the data sort of comes to a full stop.
00:04:33
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But yeah, we'll post that again because it does show all the average daytime temperatures and the average nighttime temperatures for Germany in 1944 and 1945. And it's interesting they mentioned the Americans because actually in the next week or so, the Americans are actually going to take over the entire Roar Triangle area from the British as they move north ready for that operation that I mentioned, Operation Veritable. Things are moving forward.
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30th January 1945. News from Scotland. One industry seems to be flourishing on the weather. The weekend at Campbelltown has seen the biggest haul of herring for many a year. Some fishermen pocketed ยฃ100 in two days. OK, Mary. Yes. This is not our first rodeo as regards to herring. What do you know about them?
00:05:28
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The Allies dropped about 250 Italian partisans behind German lines in the Po Valley, which caused a bit of havoc for a German chap with a fantastic name, which made it easy for the Allies to move on up the mountain. But that's not the fish you're looking for, is it?
00:05:45
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It's not the fish we're looking for. We're talking about the little silvery fish that was kind of the staple diet for lots of parts of England and one of the biggest exports. And guess, believe it or not, I spent my weekend looking at Rigby's Encyclopedia of the Herring. No!
00:06:02
Speaker
Yeah, that's how sad I am. And actually the herring industry was on the wane by the Second World War because they'd had a huge boom in the earlier part of the century and they were catching thousands upon thousands and they basically fished them into nothing. They even set up a herring industry board.
00:06:21
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It was Ramsay MacDonald that set that up and they had the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, the unionist, the Scottish Unionist Walter Elliott MP for Glasgow, Kelvin Grove, which is where my family are from, and they passed the Herring Industry Act in 1935. This is the thing that got Herring back on the menu, didn't it, really? Yes. It worked out that it's full of vitamins and various bits and pieces and it was a good alternative.
00:06:48
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But it was also a bit more, weirdly enough, more responsible fishing, which is actually kind of a bit ahead of its time, because they pretty much exhausted the stocks. And yeah, so they set up the board, but actually collapsed, or it was folded during the Second World War, when an awful lot of the fishing fleet, the herring fishing fleet, was taken for
00:07:07
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Navy use, so they would do minesweeping and they'd have active sauna and all the rest of it touched them to help with the war against the Germans. So you built for it. So it's amazing that in Campbelltown they've managed to catch a load of herring. They must have just hit a big shawl. Incidentally, Campbelltown is not far from the ale of iron. I had to get that one in. Second of February 1945, the way to treat pigs
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No, it's not the Bosch this time. But among the strange animal stories from our part of the front, there's one about a piece. I'm not going to get through this in one piece. Hold on. Hold on. Hold tight. Come on. Get a grip. Second of February, 1945. And this is the third time I've tried to do this.
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No, it's not the Bosch this time, but among the strange animal stories from our part of the front, there's one about a pig. You may have heard about lorries being converted into horse boxes, and about hens dying from shock on the approach of the first British soldier, and about attempts to extract milk from cows with suction pumps, but quite possibly you are unacquainted with the tail of the pig.
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Despite evasive action and Teutonic attempts to disengage, it has finally been caught in an encircling movement by the R.A.S.C. It has now been brought on strength as a runner or trotter and re-marked with tactical markings, including our divisional sign. Eventually, owing to lack of replacements, it may be destined for cannibalisation. I don't know what's happening in the 52nd anymore.
00:08:48
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They've caught a pig, haven't they? Yes, and it's the RESC, the Royal Army Service Corps, who provide all of the mortar transport and logistical support to the division. Obviously got far too much time in their hands. And what they've done is they've rounded up a pig and basically, because the darn thing's causing havoc, they've decided to put markings on it and camouflage it.
00:09:09
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Well, it's interesting, and hopefully our reader, our one listener out there, has read a few of the personal memoirs of the Second World War. The effect on the livestock of Europe was fundamentally changed by the British Army because they just, honestly, they spent enormous amounts of time trying to milk cows, trying to catch chickens. I mean, one account that we were familiar with, they even got a pet goat.
00:09:33
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And of course, we both know of an R.E.S.C unit based in Italy that actually managed to adopt a duck and the duck was with them for a considerable amount of time when they were fighting in Italy. In fact, he even became the unit symbol, didn't it? It did indeed. One question, though. I mean, if they were keeping animals like this, presumably it was always with the intent of eating them.
00:09:56
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think so yeah I mean if you've ever had British Army Russians then a pig running around the operational area would be a little bit too tempting I think. 2nd of February 1945 25 miles to Manila
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Three years ago, General MacArthur was making his magnificent stand at Bataan.
Allied Progress and Post-War Issues
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Today, the American Eighth Army is back on the Bataan Peninsula. From Subic Bay, where they captured a fine naval base and an island guarding the entrance, men of the 24th and 38th US divisions have pressed halfway across the Ahili country, which forms the neck between Bataan and the mainland. They are fast approaching the bulk of our allies' forces, now within 25 miles of Inilla.
00:10:41
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At the northern end of the Luzon Front, a drive along the eastern shore of Lingyin Bay is threatening the Japanese headquarters of Baguio.
00:10:51
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The story has been told of a bold raid by American Rangers and Filipinos 25 miles behind the enemy lines. They reached their objective, a prisoner-of-war camp, unobserved, surprised and wiped out the entire guard and in a matter of seconds released over 500 captors. Among them was 23 British soldiers captured at Singapore. Although heavily counterattacked by tanks, on the return journey and moving with difficulty owing to the emaciated condition of the prisoners,
00:11:17
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They got back to American territory with practically all the men they'd set free. That's quite a story, isn't it? That is quite a story. And I hadn't realised that British soldiers were on Manila. The idea that it's difficult to move because you've got emaciated prisoners with you puts things into sharp perspective, really, doesn't it? You can't just put guys on the back of a truck and ship them out. You've actually got to care for them on route.
00:11:43
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Yeah, exactly. And I think the thing is, as they get farther and farther into Japanese territory, held territory, they're going to come across more of these prisoner war camps and the actual horrific reality of what the Japanese did to the the Allied POWs is going to become more and more obvious. I mean, that's what we that's what we mentioned in the introduction, though, wasn't it? Yeah. Just the war crimes that are going on are horrific. Yeah.
00:12:13
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2nd February 1945. It's not the last bus, but the lost bus which is giving Manchester its present headache. Not put too fine a point on it, someone has lifted it from the corporation depot. There is no suggestion as yet that any ex-soldier with BLA experience is responsible.
00:12:32
Speaker
OK, I'm going to put 20 quid no that it was a British soldier that stole the bus. Well, I do know who stole it. I went and looked it up. Right. This is the kind of thing that even when you type it into Google, if you're going to if you're going to search 75 years ago, chances are something like this is going to. Yeah, go on.
00:12:50
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Having said that, it wasn't Google driven searches that turned up the information. I had to go back into the British newspaper archive. This was something that ended up with nationwide radio appeal. Albert Wadham, aged 33, of no fixed abode.
00:13:05
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was charged with stealing a bus from the Manchester Corporation. It was valued at ยฃ1,100 and his idea was he was going to whip it and sell it on the black market in London when the fuss died down. But the reality was that when you steal a bus, it sort of stands out and the trouble was he couldn't find anywhere to hide it, so he ditched it in Stafford. Okay, several things. Yeah.
00:13:31
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Stafford is is kind of a little bit I mean I don't know I mean obviously there was no M6 motorway at the time but also he only got as far as Stafford. Secondly I think a Manchester bus would look out of place in London. But I tell you what on the same page in the British newspaper archives and I'd encourage anybody I know to take out a subscription because they are worth their weight in gold. Yeah. There were three lovely little stories okay and one of them now that I remember it makes sense with the article you just read out.
00:14:00
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So the two snippets that leapt off the page there, one was the fact that British Railways at this point in time were still employing 9714 horses to collect and deliver 9 million tons of goods and 26 million parcels every year.
00:14:18
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I think, I don't think we, this is this thing about animals in war again. We still forget that horse power is still quite a big thing in the mid 1940s. So the second snippet was the fact that weaker beer and spirits are the root cause of a dip in drunkenness in Manchester. And the third article, right, this is the Manchester Evening Standard. I will read it out loud. I know it's not from our newsletter, but still.
00:14:47
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It read, Camp Dr. Gunner John Allen, one of 23 men rescued by US Rangers from the Japanese prison camp on Luzon. Today praised the American miracle worker doctors among the prisoners during their captivity. Another prisoner, Signamon Clement Potter of Bridgewater Street, Farworth said, the Japanese soldier is unspeakably stupid. He does not realize that he is losing the war.
00:15:17
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my god so just the random yep look on there and you come to the story we've literally just talked about i mean that is amazing that's brilliant there's a lot there's a lot to be said for serendipity in this life yes there is i think so
00:15:40
Speaker
No, it's not the early football scores, and there's no saucy French waitress this week. There's no major Thorstington Gore either. I'll tell you what, there's a sitcom waiting to happen here. No, it's just me inviting you to come with us later on this year. Andy and I are running a battlefield tour. We're going to do it over a long weekend. It's the 11th to the 14th of October. What we're doing is we're following in the footsteps of the 52nd Lowland Division.
00:16:06
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The King's Own Scottish Borders will appear everywhere we go because this is walking with Captain Peter White's jocks. Now, if you've ever read with the jocks and wondered what the landscape looks like and where the battles actually took place, we can show you. We know everyone's going to Arnhem and it's the 80th anniversary of D-Day. But for us, the question has always been, yes, but what happened next?
00:16:32
Speaker
We can answer that and we can show you. We'll show you who was where, how they were fighting. I mean, come on. It's one thing to say, bring up the pier. But can you imagine walking the ground for yourself and reliving a battle step by step, including how to take out a Tiger tank with a projector infantry anti-tank weapon? On this part of the tour, the next bits in April next year, we're going to start at Sitard.
00:17:00
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Work our way up through Lindenstein, the way Dennis Denini VC did. Then we'll go on to Tripstrap, to Kรถningshoff, out to Waldfeuch, Heinsberg, up to Afordon Woods. We'll take you to British and German foxholes, pretty much side by side. And you can see what, for yourself, what it was like storming Castle Blijenbeek. We'll go on to House Lou, and we will finish up quite literally by putting your boots in the Rhine.
00:17:26
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But we're only doing this once. Nobody else does it. To our knowledge, nobody else has ever tracked down this much detail about these battles. And this is going to be quite the event. We're working with Battle Honors Tours. We've priced it the way you'd expect us to. It's a full on walking tour for three and a half, four days. We're staying in Ruhmond, going out by coach. And quite frankly, we are both quite excited.
00:17:51
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Get in touch with us on Twitter if you've got any questions, or you know the drill, visit walkingwiththejocks.co.uk to find out more. And from there, there's a link to the page with the booking form. That's a booking form for you to reserve your place with us, walking with the jocks. Now, back to the Lowlander.
Wartime Entertainment and Propaganda
00:18:12
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For Dancing America, for lovers of exciting music, YouTube has bring you music by Raymond Scott.
00:18:22
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4th February 1945 Radio programme The Home programme 2130 Music for All BBC Symphony Orchestra GFP 1930 Leslie Hansen in All Join In 2015 ITMA 2115 Albert Sandler in Grand Hotel AEF 1900 Hours Jack Benny Show 2015 Dorothy Carlos Show
00:18:51
Speaker
Are you aware of any of those people? One or two of them, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, the first one, Leslie Henson, he was a comedian and along with looking at the Herring Encyclopedia, I also watched some Leslie Henson YouTube videos and it was quite hard work. I think there's definitely an age gap between modern sensibilities and modern taste. And actually the thing I thought of was Spike Milligan and how he kind of
00:19:19
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pulled his hair out at some of these comedians and music hall people and it kind of explains why he was so fundamentally different from them. It's kind of a generational difference from these guys that were popular at the start of the war compared to a few years after the war.
00:19:34
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Well they were still bringing over the old time music hall sense and sensibility humour into radio programmes where of course by the time you've got Gunnar Milligan doing his thing, he's bringing in a little bit more real world experience online. And also some slightly more abstract humour as well. Incidentally, a little fact about Leslie Henson, he was performing in Dublin in 1956
00:19:56
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and he heard that his close friend Bobby Hullet, who was also a performer, died in Eastbourne. Henson was suspicious because Hullet's husband had just died four months earlier and Dr John Bodkin-Adams had treated both of them. He telephoned the Eastbourne police anonymously to warn them of his fears, instigating an investigation to the death of Hullet.
00:20:16
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After Adams was acquitted in 1957, the murder of another patient, Edith Alice Morell, who was never tried for Hollis Marta, the Home Office pathologist at the time, Dr. Francis Cramps, that's a funny name for a pathologist, noted 163 suspicious deaths among Adams patients between 1946 and 1956. That's not very funny, is it?
00:20:39
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Well, OK, apart from the name Dr. Francis Cramps. And of course, we mentioned Aetna. That was, I think, probably the most popular radio show, comedy radio show in the war. It's kind of often referenced. Again, I couldn't really get into it. I don't know if you did.
00:20:55
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What, Tommy Handley? It's that man again. Yeah. No. No. But of course the other names are Jack Benny and Dorothy Carlos. Jack Benny is very different, isn't he?
00:21:10
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Yeah and his show ran for years and years and years but then these had all have been named. So hang on a second I've got I was going to say these were all names that would have been well known to the men but were they able to listen to all of these programs because GFP is the forces program isn't it? Yeah yeah because actually you because of the I mean it depends on what wave of radio set and what type of radio set you had. You do hear of
00:21:32
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lots of lots of cases and lots of accounts in the war of people tuning into the radio where they can get it and especially if you're in the Netherlands rather opposed to mid perhaps deepest darkest Germany you can actually pick up radio stations and even in tanks where they'd be perhaps sitting there in the tank listening to or tuning into the the radio so yeah they definitely would be able to hear it and I suspect that's why they've put it in the Lowlander
00:21:55
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Yeah, it's the first time we've seen the whole Rodeo programme. It is, isn't it? Yeah. And Dorothy Carlos, we should point out, she's kind of a really, she almost sounds like typical of the time, that kind of, that really sort of melodic singing with the kind of big band in the background. So maybe we could just pop a spot of that music up or maybe we'll share it with her. There's got to swim, but it's got to fly
00:22:48
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29th January 1945. We scoop the Daily Express. We have just received this most recent portrait of Herr Hitler. The Fuhrer is convulsed with laughter as he listens to the latest rendering of Where's That Tiger?
00:22:50
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Tell me he's lazy
00:23:05
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So in contrast with our usual small doodles that are vaguely, you know, a resemblance of a caricature, what we've got this time is the entire sheet, the entire edition of the Lowlander, I think this is actually a loose page in the Ward Arts, is taken up with a side view, a portrait of Adolf Hitler.
00:23:25
Speaker
Now, I think I think I've seen the photograph of this. I think it's a fairly common side late war side profile of Adolf Hitler. And I think I don't think they've traced it, but they've certainly I think they sacked the old artist and they've got a new one in and he's maybe showing off what he can do because it's actually I mean, it's very obviously Adolf Hitler and he's there in his peak cap and his colours turned up. I mean, it's quite a striking picture. And we'll definitely put this on Twitter. He looks gaunt and he looks daunted and he looks like the end is nigh.
00:23:55
Speaker
Well that's because he's got the lowlanders breathing down his neck. First of February 1945. On the German air. The broadcast presentation of news from the Russian front to the German people during the past and fortnight makes interesting reading. There has been throughout an almost neurotic insistence that at no point have any symptoms of panic or failure been registered.
00:24:22
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all, also the German radio would have as believe, are ready for action and sacrifice. All are confident whether civilians in front line towns such as Kรถnigsberg and Breslau or seasoned soldiers who in trains rolling towards the east only speak in the voice of calm and cool superiority.
00:24:41
Speaker
Now, I mean, we just mentioned the light program and what's going on on the on the airwaves back in Britain, but it sounds like Germany is trying to make the very best of a bad job by broadcasting complete and utter bollocks about the state of plan.
00:24:56
Speaker
It reminds me of the famous incident when the Iraqi Minister for Information was doing a press briefing during the Second Gulf War saying everything is absolutely fine. Well, in the background, everything was blowing up. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know if they're trying to tell themselves. Do you think that might be directed at the civilians rather than the soldiers?
00:25:18
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I think it must be, but I know that later on in the article, I think they mentioned that it actually backfires when they when they try to reassure people that there's nothing to worry about and remain calm because what people actually do is decide that if they can remain calm, they can probably go about their lives in an ordinary way to some extent. And of course, that doesn't really help.
00:25:39
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And of course, if you read any of the accounts of the last few months of the war, as you roll into Germany, the civilians know they're beaten. They are kind of downtrodden, they're downcast, they're glum. And there's also a little bit of relief that finally it's over for when the British are going to blast them.
00:26:00
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And finally, we go to this week's Thought for the Day from the 29th of January, 1945. War is no laughing business, yet it is a business we should all do better if once in a while we take time out to laugh. Abraham Lincoln. We finally, finally get to a Thought for the Day that I actually understand by a person I've heard of. So this is a big, big day in the low end, aren't we? OK, so you understand it, but that's good. But do you know where it comes from?
00:26:28
Speaker
No, obviously not. Okay, fine. So, to be honest, I'm not completely sure where it's from. I can find standalone references to it, but no actual sort of in situ representation of the quote itself. However, comma, I do wonder if it's connected to Lincoln's quick dip into some headology in 1862. Now, he got a reputation for having a sense of humour. According to Edward Stanton,
00:26:55
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who was his Secretary of War. Old Abe had called his War Cabinet together, everybody, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, everyone. And he'd started the meeting by reading from a book. The book was written by Artemis Ward. And it's a fairly light bit of literature. What he does is he reads an anecdote and he laughs uproariously at the end of what he's reading. Absolute silence in the room because the guys have been brought together and things aren't going particularly well.
00:27:23
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as far as they know they're here to have an update or something or some new policy. So he starts again and he reads the anecdote again and then he reads a third one and then he's supposed to have said because each time he's met with abject silence.
00:27:35
Speaker
He's supposed to have said, gentlemen, why don't you laugh with the fearful strain that is upon me night and day? If I did not laugh, I should die. And you need this medicine as much as I do, which is not dissimilar to what you just read. So the next document he reads out, which is the whole purpose of meeting, is the Emancipation Plot
00:27:59
Speaker
proclamation, proclamation, which is supposed to take effect on the 1st of January the next year. All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then henceforward and forever free. What he's saying is the value of humour is not to be underestimated, no matter how serious or grave a situation may be. It's not
00:28:24
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The first time I've agreed with Abraham Lincoln and I don't think it will be the last. My interesting bumper fact about Abraham Lincoln is when he was a youngster, he was a champion wrestler. Was it? I don't think it's WWE smashing a chair over people's heads. I think it's more the traditional Cumberland dressing or something like that. But yeah, he was a championship wrestler and he actually fought in some of the minor Indian wars as well. People forget that he was actually a soldier as well as part of a militia long before the Civil War.
00:28:50
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Well, good for Abe. I think that's a good place to leave it this week, don't you? I don't think there's a better place to leave it other than the words of Abraham Lincoln. Indeed. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Lowlander. The Lowlander was written, produced and presented by Andy Richardson and Mirren Walters. This was a hellish good production.
00:29:36
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And now we go to this week's classified football results for the week commencing the 29th of January, 1945. Lee Cup North. Abrahamum 2, Cardiff 5. Barnsley 2, York City 1. Bath 7, Swansea 4. Birmingham 4, Northampton 0. Blackpool 0, Akrington 3. Bradford 2, Bradford City 2.
00:30:05
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Burnley 2, Rogetail nil. Burry 2, Halifax 1. Chester 2, Stock City 3. Chesterfield nil, Nottingham Forest 1. Coventry 2, Aston Villa 3. Crewe 3, Wrexham 3. Doncaster 1, Sheffield Wednesday 3. Everton 4, Liverpool 1. Gateshead 2, Sunderland 1. Hartlepool, Newcastle, Pussbulland
00:30:35
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Leeds 6, Hull City 1 Bristol City 2, Lovels 1 Manchester United 1, Manchester City 3 Mansfield 1, Derby County 8 Middersburn 0, Darlington 1 Notts County 1, Leicester 4 Oldham 2, Huddersfield 3 Portville 2, Wolverhampton 0 Preston North End 3, Blackpool
00:31:06
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Preston North End 3, Blackburn 1. Rotherham 3, Lincoln 2. Sheffield United 2, Groomsby 2. Southport 2, Stockport 1. Trammere Rovers 1, Bolton 4. West Bromwich 0, Walsall 2. Scottish League South
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Ayrdeonians 1 Celtic 2 Clyde 1 Martin Nil Dumbarton 3 Albion 2 Falkirk St. Meryn postponed Hibernian 2 Third Larnach 4 Motherwell 2 Parthik Thistle 1 Queen's Park 4 Hamilton Nil Regis 4 Hearts Nil International match England 3
00:31:58
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Scotland 2, for fucks sake. All right, keep your wool on. English League South. Aldershot 1, West Ham 3. Brentford 3, Brighton 5. Charlton 1, Watford 1. Clapton Orient nil, Portsmouth 1. Fulham 1, Millwall 3. Luton nil, Chelsea 1.
00:32:26
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Reading 1 Arsenal 3 Southampton 4 Crystal Palace 1 Tottenham 1 Queen's Park Rangers 1 Scottish League North East All matches postponed We haven't seen it before but are you going to mention the odd shaped ball? Why on earth would we talk about the rugby scores?
00:33:11
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They went in there and they just saw the bloody Germans off. They were hellish goods.