Dozens of webbers gave an answer to our last Who Said It quiz, but few got it right. The answer is Samuel Goldfish, better known as Samuel Goldwyn,…
Author: Dean Swift
‘Dean Swift’ is a pen name: the author has been a soldier; he has worked in sales, TV, the making of films, as a teacher of English and history and a journalist. He is married with three grown-up children. They live in Spain.
Incident at sea, 30 October, 1942
Incident at sea, 30 October, 1942 During the Second World War the British had been reading top-secret German codes messages sending orders to their Navy, Army and Airforce,…
Ireland’s neutrality during World War II
Ireland’s neutrality in World War II As the clouds of war deepened over Europe in 1939, certain countries declared their neutrality in the hope that they would not…
The Sykes-Picot Agreement
The Sykes-Picot Agreement (‘Honesty in diplomacy is rare’) In 1916 a secret agreement was signed between Britain and France, each country agreeing to take control of Turkey in…
Old posts to create our First Book
Dear Sirs, We must apologize for having removed all previous posts. This is the third time that we have suffered an attack from robots or spammers and even…
Who said it . . .?
This is another of those brief quizzes designed to keep your mind active. Please tell me who said these things in the form of a Comment. The last…
The ‘Indian’ Wars
Images, dreamlike or real, and the reputation of the Native American have greatly altered in the last forty or fifty years; he was always the treacherous and deadly…
The Homestead Act & Strike
This Act was passed in the US government in 1862, at the very height of the ‘Wild West’ era – brave pioneers heading west, ‘Redskins’ whose land it…
The Great Depression
This ten-year horror followed the Wall Street Crash (q.v. 2 days ago), lasting from 1929 to 1939, and might have been longer had not World War 2 interrupted…
The Wall Street Crash
Since the end of the immediate post-War depression in US financial markets, occurring in 1922, share prices rose dramatically. Naturally this encouraged a speculative boom and by 1929…