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HWG White: a child's impression of the world during War

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Transcription: ..."July 1914 - father was due for referral, this is the year that I first remember England. But our voyage home was abord a German liner - War was not yet declared, but there was plenty of pent-up tension blowing about the decks between the British and the Germans, and to this day I can still hear the German ship's band playing the double eagle. ['Unter dem Doppelladler] as we steamed into Oporto. Mother had already retired to her cabin; she had only to see a ship to get sea-sick, and whilst father spent much of his time - wherever men spend much of their time on liners - Anyway, he dissapeared frequently. Meanwhile, Jane Jenner dressed my sister and me in our sea-going uniforms; navy-blue sweaters and long pants, blue reefer coats and sailor hats, and we walked the decks, or lay in deckchairs. My sister was a fat, shy child, and she stayyed with Jane, whilst I had my father's everlasting bonhomie, and made friends indiscriminately, much to my eventual cost; one day I eluded Jane, and became friendly with a German professor and his wife who were childless, and evidently admired my long, golden curls and sailor hat. They flattered me, and I shared my biscuits with them, until one day, the professor picked me up and held me over the side of the ship; no doubt in harmless fun, but I was terrified. From that moment I became violently anti-German on my own account."...[both laugh] ... And this is sort of her memory of England. They were very well-heeled, my parents and grandparents on both sides. My grandmother' side of the family came from Salisbury, and her father was a cutler, as had been his people before, and they're stuff is all in Salisbury museum. He supplied cutlery to Queen Victoria. WIth regards to the War, I have got some letters written by the family to my mother. This letter [by my grandfather] was written in 1915; but there's no mention of the War - that's really weird Yes... but his job was sort of taking him all around the world at the time that the war was happening....

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Diary 4: January - December 1937

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Transcription: Left page     Dick Mulcahy's defeat is sad.  He was & is hardworking & I had occasion several times recently to admire his moral courage, rare enough at home.   John Mavens slipped in at the end of the list in Kerry.   Sean Lemass had a record vote in Dublin   Two notes of condolence and one of congratulation! 12/7.  Sean Lemass 53 Palmerston Road in a letter says the "results were a surprise to everybody including the Labour Party . . . .  Everyone thought the result a foregone conclusion and sectional interests thought they wd have a knock at the Govmt without undue risk.  Now they are pressing us to got to the country again which wd be foolish. . .  The Labour Party's power is an illusion: they cannot risk putting out the Gov. even if they could  Right page   I don't think the new Dail will go its full term but there will be no immediate danger". 14/7   Have recently finished Oliver St. John Gogarty's "As I was walking down Sackville Street" - full of malice & hard words but as I don't mind "de-bunking" I found it interesting & stimulating.  He writes indiscreetly and will have all the puritanical and primly proper folk clamouring against him.  He is bitterly hard on Dev. and perfectly savage about Joe  ... , worships  Arthur Griffith's memory - "the bravest man I ever met" as Birkenhead  ... him.   One gets the impression of much disillusionment, which may have personal as well as natural causes.   Not so much posing as I had expected.

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Umweltblätter - Infoblatt des Friedens- und Umweltkreises Zionskirchgemeinde

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Transcription: item 39   34 ______________________________________________________________________________________  linke Spalte        Vorerst wurden die Abweichler mit Mitteln gesellschaftlicher Einwirkung belehrt, indem sie aus der Partei gejagt, vom Arbeits- platz entlassen, aus Wissen- schaft und Literatur entfernt, ihrer Einkommensquellen und schließlich der Luft des Vaterlandes beraubt wurden. Dabei wurden hauptsächlich ihre Kollegen aus Literatur und Wissenschaft, ihre ehemaligen Freunde und Genossen zu Vollstreckungs- beamten degradiert.      Dennoch fanden sich in der Gesellschaft, die einen Hauch von Freiheit geatmet hatte, Menschen, die mit behördlichen Unannehmlichkei- ten kaum zu schrecken, mit Privilegien, Auslandsreisen und weiß der Himmel was sonst noch kaum zu bestechen waren. Für sie wurde eine ganze Palette anderer Strafe aufgeboten. Das Strafgesetz- buch erhielt 1986 einen Paragraphen (190 Ergänzung), der für die "Verbreitung bewußter Unwahrheiten, die die sowjetische Staats- und Gesellschaftsordnung schmä- hen", Freiheitsentzug bis zu drei Jahren vorsah: für die gleichen Handlungen, die als "Agitation oder Propaganda zur Untergrabung oder Schwächung der Sowjetmacht" qualifiziert wurden, drohten Freiheitsstra- fen bis zu sieben Jahren (Paragraph 70). Obwohl die Straforgane, die keiner öffentlichen Aufsicht unterla- gen, nicht zu Massenrepressio- nen griffen, besaßen sie genügend Macht und Rechte, um die Gesetze großzügig auszule- gen und rücksichtslos vorzuge- hen. Die sogenannte Dissiden- tenbewegung (die die Presse heute unter die Informellen einstüfen würde) hatte ihre starken und schwachen Seiten, diente manchmal auch den Ambitionen bestimmter Leute. Unzweifelhaft jedoch hat sich damit erstmals in der Ge-  mittlere Spalte   schichte der letzten Jahtzehn- te ein Umriß des gesell- schaftlichen Protests gebildet und bewiesen. wie viele begabte und standhafte Menschen die Gesellschaft einbüßte, läßt sich schwer schätzen, da sie keine Gelegenheit erhielten, konstruktiv an der gesell- schaftlichen Erneuerung zu arbeiten. Die zielstrebigen Anstrengungen zur Demoralisie- rung, Demütigung und später auch Landesverweisung von Personen, deren einzige "Schuld" es war, daß sie die Gesetzlichkeit, das Recht auf Freimut und Kreativität schützen wollten, führte nicht nur zur Deformation im Geistesleben,sondern hatte die eigenmächtige Ausdehnung der rein ideologischen Funktionen staatlicher Instanzen, vor allem des Sicherheitsdienstes, zur Folge.         Wir hatten unsere Helden und unsere Gerechten. Aber sie waren Rufer in der Wüste. Wenn wir Breschnew und Suslow beschuldigen, dürfen wir nicht vergessen, wie viele Menschen den Protest gegen Doppelzün- gigkeit, den Appell, "nicht mit der Lüge zu leben", für bodenlosen Maximalismus hielten. Im Herbst 1969 wurden zunächst Alexander Solscheni- zyn und dann auch dessen Fürsprecher weihevoll und  unisono aus dem Schriftstel- lerverband ausgestoßen. Andrej Sacharow schützten zunächst noch seine früheren staatli- chen Verdienste, seine Orden und Titel. Seine zunehmende politische Aktivität versetzte die Schar der ideologischen Eiferer in Unruhe. Seine Aufrufe verhallten ungehört. Die Maschinerie der einmütigen Verurteilung (wie auch Billigung) funktionierte immer besser.      Ja, es gab Dutzende und Hunderte unmittelbare Opfer, nicht aber Millionen wie unter Stalin. Doch ein unrechtmäßi-  rechte Spalte  ges Urteil trifft nicht nur die Verurteilten. Unter dem Unrecht, wenn auch nur gegenüber einem einzigen Menschen (das natürlich im Namen der Gesellschaft erfolgt), leidet die ganze Gesellschaft, selbst wenn sie  sich dessen nicht bewußt wird. "Märtyrer des Dogmas, auch ihr seid Opfer des Jahrhunderts", schrieb Pasternak. Und die Märtyrer der Angst? Und die Untertäni- gen der "Einhelligkeit"? Und die, die einfach die Hand hochhoben, um nicht aufzufal- len? Die so taten, als ginge sie "das" nichts an? Die sich für "wichtigere Dinge" aufsparten? Und die, die in ohnmächtiger Verzweiflung die Faust ballten? . . .  Sokrates hatte recht: "Ein Volk, das heute ehrlos ist, wird morgen brotlos sein." Unter Jubiläums-Fanfaren Vom Adjektiv "leninsche" in Bezug auf Äußerungen und Handlungen der Funktionärs- schicht wurde hemmungslos Gebrauch gemacht. Natürlich hatte der Versuch, die Illusion der unmittelbaren Nachfolge von Rang und Ansehen - von Iljitsch (Lenin) zu Iljitsch (Bresch- new) - nicht mehr Erfolgs- chancen als die Verherrli- chung des Schriftsteller- und Heerführertalents des farblosen Politikers. Doch die immer fester verankerten Spielregeln verlangten immer weniger einen realenErfolg als vielmehr die Erfolgsmel- dung.      Die "Jubiläumsepoche" orientierte auf die Erinne- rung an die heldenhaften Leistungen der Vergangenheit. Daher die Idee, die Geschich- te unserer Gesellschaft in eine heilige Geschichte zu verwandeln (hier kam das stalinistische Muster als Methode wie als Material zustatten). Die Geschichte

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Diary 4: January - December 1937

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Transcription: Left page   from the Fieldmarshal to the latest recruit that it is rotten & unready. A country also with ration cards for fats"!!! in peace time is not ready for war.   On the other hand Willard thinks the main hope for Europe is to be sought in terms of the economic situation.  He spent 10 days with Roosevelt in the White House & is enthusiastically for an economic rapprochement (lowering of tariffs etc) with England & the Commonwealth first, & later with other "liberal" states, subsequently attracting Germany & Italy.  Roosevelt thinks this is the only way he can help Europe out of its mess.  Right page   8/7/37   The elections at home have had a surprising result.  I was confident Devalera would obtain a clear & substantial - 6 to 8 - majority over all parties in the reduced Dail.  Before the election Devalera 77.  Cosgrove 53.  Labor 8. Indpts 12.  That was in a Dail of 150. The new figures (total 138) are Dev. 69.  Fine Gael 48.  Indpt. 8.  Labour 13. 69 to 69 unless some indpts. go over to Dev. Labour's gain is most interesting.  Sean Campbell estimated two weeks ago they wd get 6.  Archie Heron is elected.  Dick Mulcahy & Desmond FitzGerald defeated. Jim Harkin comes back into public life as a Deputy.   And the Constitution plebiscite is equally interesting.  686,042 for and 528,296 against.  Not a very  brilliant set off

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Ratne bojne dopisnice - Feldpost iz Prvog svjetskog rata

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Description: Ratne bojne dopisnice (Feldpost) bile su najfunkcionalnije sredstvo komuniciranja vojnika sa porodicom tokom Prvog svjetskog rata. Većinom su bile cenzurisane i na njima se nalazio pečat vojne cenzure, regimentalni pečat i pečat vojne pošte. Na velikom broju dopisnica nalazila su se sva tri pečata, međutim, nerijetko se nalazio samo jedan ili dva. Poznato je da su vojnici bili strogo kažnjavani ukoliko su svjesno pisali bilo šta što otkriva vojne tajne. Pisati su mogli samo vojnici. Sve što bi napisali davalo bi se vojnom cenzoru da to pregleda i tek kad on odobri moglo se poslati porodici. Čitajući pisma, može se uvidjeti da su ona poprilično štura, te da su dobro pazili o svemu šta je napisano, upravo iz razloga da bi izbjegli probleme sa nadređenim. Feldpost sistem Austro-ugarske Monarhije, omogućavao je vojnicima da komuniciraju sa svojim najbližima. Sačuvane razglednice i pisma pružaju lični pogled na to kako su pojedini vojnici doživljavali sukobe. || Devet bojnih dopisnica (Feldpost)

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Dumitru Nistor prizonier de război în Japonia

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Description: Este un volum de jurnal din cele trei deţinute de Biblioteca Judeţeană Octavian Goga Cluj. || Dumitru Nistor, ţăran din satul Năsăud s-a născut în 1893. Visând din copilărie să călătorească şi să vadă ţări străine, în 1912, când vine vremea “număraşului” (recrutării) el cere să fie primit nu în miliţia ardeleană, unde erau recrutaţi de obicei românii, ci în marina austro-ungară. Terminând şcoala de marină, după o călătorie la Viena, este îmbarcat ca Geschützvormeister (“primul îndreptător de tun”) pe vasul SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth, cu destinaţia Asia. Prins de război în Marea Chinei, crucişătorul Kaiserin Elisabeth participă la câteva bătălii navale, pentru ca în 2 noiembrie 1914 să se hotărască scufundarea lui. Echipajul pierde şi lupta terestră, este luat prizonier de japonezi şi transportat în arhipelagul nipon. Timp de zece luni, ţăranul-marinar din Năsăud va fi prizonier într-o mănăstirea buddhistă din Himeji, iar apoi mutat într-un lagăr, construit special pentru prizonierii germani şi austrieci, la Aonogahara, nu departe de Kobe, unde va rămâne până la sfârşitul anului 1919.

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Έλληνας της Μικράς Ασίας εθελοντής στον Ελληνικό Στρατό

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Description: The engraved Greek phrase is "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ". Origin: Famously attributed to King Leonidas I of Sparta at the Battle of Thermopylae. Pronunciation (Modern Greek): [moˈlon laˈve] English Translation: "Come and take them”

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