The Day We Went to War (59 page)

Christmas broadcast
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Television Service
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Beattie, Ed
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)

Beaverbrook, Lord
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Beck, Colonel Jozef
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illus.,
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
,
(xi)

Beer Hall Bomb
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illus.,
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Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
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,
(ii)

Belgium: waiting for war
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Benes, Eduard
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Benn, Anthony Wedgwood
see
Wedgwood-Benn, Anthony

Berlin-Moscow pact
see
German-Soviet pact

Biddle, Anthony J Drexel, Jr
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(iv)
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(v)
,
(vi)

Black, George
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Black Velvet
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blackout
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,
(ii)
illus.,
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(iv)
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(v)

coping with
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regulations moderated
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Blitzkrieg
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illus.,
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Boehmer, Dr Karl
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Bohemia and Moravia
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(iii)

Bonnet, Georges
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illus.,
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(v)
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
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(xi)
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(xii)
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(xiii)
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(xiv)
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(xv)
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(xvi)
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(xvii)
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(xviii)
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(xix)

Bracken, Hugo
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Bremen
(liner)
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Britain
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,
(ii)
see also
Poland; ultimatum to Germany

civil defence preparations (
see
Air Raid Precautions (ARP); civil defence in Britain)

German air raids
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German interests, safeguarded by Swiss
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mobilisation
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(iv)
illus.,
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)

pre-war mood
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(iii)

reactions to declaration of war
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and war
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war budget
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warning note to Germans
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British Empire and Commonwealth
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Dominions Secretary
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Hitler’s guarantee
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support for Britain
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(iii)

war charities across
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British Expeditionary Force
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(ii)
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(iii)
illus.,
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illus.,
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)

Christmas 1939
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illus.

British Union of Fascists and National Socialists
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illus.,
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(iii)
,
(iv)

Brown House (Munich)
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Buergerbraukeller
see
Beer Hall Bomb

Butler, Ewan
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(ii)

Butler, R A
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(iii)
illus.

Cabinet War Rooms (London)
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Canada:

enters the war
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troops
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illus.,
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Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm
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Carver, Nellie Violet
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Cazalet, Victor
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Chamberlain, Neville
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(iv)
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(v)
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
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(xi)
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(xii)
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(xiii)
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(xiv)
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(xv)
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(xvi)
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(xvii)
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(xviii)
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(xix)
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(xx)
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(xxi)
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(xxii)
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(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
illus.,
(xxv)
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(xxvi)
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(xxvii)
,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
,
(xxx)
,
(xxxi)
see also
invasion of Poland (‘Case White’); ultimatum to Germany

addresses the German people
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and German Soviet pact
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speech to Commons
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Channon, Henry ‘Chips’
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(iv)

Chaplin, Charlie:
Dictators, The
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Charlton, Moyra: war diaries
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
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(xi)
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(xii)

Chatfield, Lord
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(ii)
illus.,
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Chevalier, Maurice
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(ii)
illus.,
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Chicago Tribune
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China
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Christiansen, Arthur
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Christmas 1939
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Churchill, Winston
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(ix)
illus.,
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(xi)
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(xii)
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(xiii)

addresses the House
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and leaflet drops
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and naval war
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return to Cabinet
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(iii)

suggests moderations to blackout regulations
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Ciano, Count Galeazzo
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illus.,
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(iii)
illus.,
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(v)
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)

cinemas
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City of Exeter
(liner)
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City of Flint
(freighter)
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(ii)
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(iii)

civil defence in Britain
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(ii)
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(iii)
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(iv)
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(v)
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
,
(xi)
see also
Air Raid Precautions (ARP); Home Front sandbagging
(xii)
illus.,
(xiii)

Clark, Sir Kenneth
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(iv)
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(v)
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(vi)

Colville, John
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(iii)

commencement of hostilities
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(iv)
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(vi)

concerts
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‘confetti war’
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illus.

Cook, Captain James
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Cooper, Alfred Duff
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Cooper, Lady Diana
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Corbin, Charles
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Coulondre, Robert
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(vii)

countdown to war: January-September 1939
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Courageous,
HMS (aircraft carrier)
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illus.

Coward, Noël
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Cowles, Virginia
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Cox, Geoffrey
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)

Czecho-Slovakia
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(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
see also
Slovakia

Czechs
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(iii)

Dabrowski, Captain Franciszek
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Dahlerus, Birger
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(iv)

Daily Express
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(vi)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
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(xi)
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(xii)
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(xiii)

Daily Mail
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(iii)

Daily Telegraph
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(vi)
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(vii)

Daladier, Edouard
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(iii)
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(iv)
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(v)
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(vi)
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(vii)
illus.,
(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
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(xi)
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(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)

Dalton, Hugh
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Danzig (‘Free City’)
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(vii)
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(viii)
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(ix)
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(x)
,
(xi)

Day, Kenneth
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De Valera, Eamon
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,
(ii)

Dean, Basil
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declaration of war by Britain
(i)
,
(ii)
see also
Chamberlain, Neville; Daladier, Edouard; France; George VI, King of England

reactions to
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(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Defence Policy Plans Committee
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Delmer, Denis Sefton
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,
(ii)

Deutschland
(pocket battleship)
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

name changed to
Luetzow
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Deutschlandsender
(German Radio)
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Dickson, John
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Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of War (Germany)
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Dirksen, Herbert von
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