Diary October 21, 1940

Churchill 'All goes well'
Battered by German bombing Churchill occurs in front of a microphone and sings the French hit ‘All goes well … Madame la Marquise’. German propaganda poster for the occupied western territories.
Diary for Monday, October 21, 1940:

Home Front

Britain: Churchill broadcasts to France, in French; he pours scorn on the threatened invasion of Britain: ‘We are waiting …. So are the fishes !’ and warns that Hitler (‘this monstrous abortion of hatred and defeat’) is plotting the total subjugation of France.
Purchase Tax introduced.

Sea War

Mediterranean: Italian Navy forms new command – Maritrafalba – to escort vital convoys from Brindisi and Bari to Albania, in readiness for impending invasion of Greece.

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