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October 27: BBC transmitting from Penzance. Faint. November 3: On board the Sisyphus off Scilly. The last days of England have passed. Heightening the horror, the BBC in its final moments forwent its policy of soothing its listeners and urging calmness upon them.
October 13: Grass in Fife and Stirling. BBC urges calm. October 14: Rumor has it work abandoned at Stonehenge. It was a futile gesture anyway. I'm sure F will perfect the counteragent anyday. October 15: Mrs H announced she has completed her selection of fifty young women, adding, "I hope they will prove satisfactory, sir."
The people were restive, no longer appeased by the tentative promise of redemption through Miss Francis' efforts. The BBC named a date for the first attack upon the Grass, contradicted itself, said sensible men would understand these matters couldnt be pinned down to hours and minutes.
July 15: BBC this morning reported Grass in the Ardennes. This undoubtedly means a new influx from the Continent the coastguard is practically powerless and we will be picked clean. In spite of the news F absolutely refuses to set a definite date. Kept my temper with difficulty. Came home to be annoyed by Mrs H telling me K, one of the housemaids, had been got into trouble by an undergardener.
Miss Francis' optimistic news had been communicated to the authorities, but not given out over the BBC. This was an obvious precaution against a wave of concerted invasion by the fear obsessed horde beyond the Channel.
So upset by petty annoyances I could not write on my history. August 9: Glorious news. The BBC announced the antiGrass compound would be perfected before Christmas. August 10: F denies validity of the wireless report. Said no one with the remotest trace of intelligence would make such a statement. "Is it impossible to have the compound by then?" I asked her.
August 7: BBC announced this morning the Grass is in Bordeaux and under the Defense of the Realm Act every man and woman is automatically in service and will be solely responsible for a hundred square feet of the island's surface, their stations to be assigned by the chief county constable. Tried to get Sir H C no phone service. Wrote on my history till noon.
I have given orders to grant no more charters for the present. September 20: The enthusiasm is subsiding and people are beginning to ask how long it will be before they can expect the reconquest of the Continent to begin. BBC spoke cautiously about "perfection" of the compound for the first time, opening the way to the implication that it doesnt work as yet. Added quite a bit to my manuscript.
Day followed day uneventfully and we seemed to be on the same course as before according to our amateur navigators; for many of us this was the first time we had been so far from our island home and we were quite excited. In order to keep up our spirits and inform us of the progress of the war the BBC news was frequently broadcast.
His articulation was not exactly that of the BBC but he had a pleasing Cornish accent and over the many times I saw him he never appeared to have the aloofness of rank. Occasionally he would visit our GOR and having discussed things at a higher level would exchange a few words with the other ranks.
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