Posted on 07/27/2015 4:41:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
No kidding.
The 1945 general election was the first to be held in over ten years due to the war, and the Labour landslide (they won 393 seats and 47.7% of the vote) surprised even Clement Atlee.
On the first day of the new parliament, Labour members sang the socialist anthem the Red Flag. They held power until 1951, by which time the government had overseen the nationalisation of key industries and the creation of the National Health Service.
On POW/MIA day, a son remembers (his dad went missing July 27, 1945)
CINCINNATI — He remembers two men in uniform coming to the front door. They wanted to talk to his mom about his dad.
Marcus David Greer was a little guy back in 1945, just 4 years old. Known as Dave to his family in Bridgetown, he would play airman by wearing the wool overseas cap his father gave him before going off to fly B-24s in World War II.
The two men didn’t stay long. But the memory of their visit lingers.
“After they left,” Greer said, holding tightly to a snapshot of his dad, “it seemed like she cried for a week.”
Read the rest of the story here:
http://archive.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20120921/NEWS/209210313/On-POW-MIA-day-son-remembers
It was the passage of the National Health Act in Britain that led Mark Steyn to state that socialized medicine was the death of conservatism. Once passed, it would never be repealed. Political debate would only be in “nibbling around the margins.” Limited government as a political reality would be dead forever. Britain’s course since 1947 show it’s true.
Navy Captain Larkin Description of the Trinity Test July 27 1945
https://www.flickr.com/photos/losalamosnatlab/7597488338/
Ronald Reagan warned about that very thing starting in the early 1960s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sgOVxmbMkc
Coles Bros. Circus Train wreck, Brainerd, MN., July 27, 1945
Well, the USS Indianapolis has made its delivery of A-bomb components to Tinian and headed back out....
No. 1 song in the USA
July 27, 1945
Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers - On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmBKHSZ1pcU
July 27, 1945
Derdinger, Germany
Dear Mudder and Dad,
It’s been 3 days since I’ve written but that’s because we’ve been hitting it pretty hot and heavy. I.G. inspection and all that. Last night, however, I really had a swell time. I went to the Jack Benny U.S.O. Show in Stuttgart and the opening of the snazzy new Red Cross Club there.
The Benny Show played in the “Sportstadium” and I really enjoyed it. Benny, Martha Tilden, Ingrid Bergman, and Larry Adler made up the cast and were supported by the 16th Armored Swing Band which was very good. Martha Tilden sang a song called “I Wanna Get Married” which I thought was very cute.
Some of Benny’s gags sounded like they were written by an irate Combat Infantryman. I noticed some of the “brass” fidgeted a little uneasily in their seats at some of them. The crowd of course went wild. Benny played the violin and good—no kiddin.’ I don’t think Kreistler has anything to worry about but he was O.K.
After the show was over we went to the new Red Cross joint. Really O.K. That 397th gang are stationed there and are really getting the breaks. Stuttgart, even though partially destroyed is pretty swell when compared with Derdingen in which the foremost and most outstanding feature is “aroma d’ excretion bovine.” I never saw so many American girls in one place since I left the states. Wished I was stationed in Stuttgart. American girls look so much better than the Frauleins.
“Be sure to read the next thrilling installment.”
Best Love, — Bill
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