Although I’m an Anglophile, all the talk about the royal wedding has so disgusted me that I’ve been tempted to say something nice about the French. Fortunately, before I gave in during a moment of weakness, I found this gem from the 1940s that reminded me why I admire our cousins across the pond.
These temporary rules were posted at Britain’s Richmond Golf Club, located 10 miles from London, after German bombs hit the course in 1940.
According to the club’s website , “Dr Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, used the Club’s Temporary Rules as the theme of a broadcast by William (Lord Haw-Haw) Joyce: ‘By means of these ridiculous reforms the English snobs try to impress the people with a kind of pretended heroism. They can do so without danger, because, as everyone knows, the German Air Force devotes itself only to the destruction of military targets and objectives of importance to the war effort.’ Evidently the Club’s laundry outbuilding was a military target.”
(Via: Geekosystem )
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