This blog starts today, St. George’s Day, 23 April, 1939. This will be a chronicle of the war that threatens from the East.
Little more than one month ago, on 15 March, Germany declared Bohemia and Moravia its protectorate, placing it under supervision of Reichsprotektor Konstantin von Neurath.
On 23 March, Lithuania ceded the Memel territory to Germany.
Brigadier Peter Young (World War II, p. 16) reminds us that, barely 25 days ago, on 29 March, the Cabinet ordered Britain’s territorial forces to double in size.
The prospects are grim as we look to developments in Central Europe.
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