Stanza 43+ Proem Tribute work ref Anabasis (St. John Perse)
written in 1924 ; translation by T.S. Eliot 1930 ; parallel text
temp note composed Friday am Dec 20th hand-written verse
paragraphs for aprox 9 stanzas in free-flowing biro....
The last bastion of the West and who I wonder, said or wrote
that ? Or, final, to avoid the noise of rhetoric and the nose of
Spengler, who, nearly to the year, around 2000, was uncanny
terrifyingly prophetic, and correct. Was it The Twin Towers ?
German, he lived 1880-1936 ; his Decline works dated 1918
and, wierdly, 1922. T.S. Eliot greatly admired the posit, read
before he sang The Wasteland. ( My text has gone ex draft ).
But, we have a cabal of traitors, fattening free in our midst,
after the leadership failure, and thus we can only grieve, leer
at so much courage done to death for our freedom, ever lost
in trivia, and a brandy, or they may have tried to be, in 1940.
Was Joan sent away, for any passing of the vintage Port ? if
Lord Vansittart huffed on Liege, to be a Belgian Singapore,
and is that a joke. The accounts differ, pace Antony Beevor.
In The Ardennes, you can drive, roam wild as if in Canada
but ultimately not in Hampshire, the county of Jane Austen,
certainty, the dividenda, pace Louis Macneice, a whipping
and marching to death, and of beagling, once upon our time.
Is Sir Julian Brazier reading this ? He, of corduroy trousers
only, in The Quad, and never jeans, and vulgarity. Tally Ho,
boys and hunting is better, with leg overs. You know, sleek !
I am diverting from the great defining tragedy, the toll days
in May 1940 when the world ended and look at Russia now.
Such a clever deal, Ribbentrop. ( Today, I read gritty Poland
is powering ahead, despite Putin, who we halted in Ukraine,
and Hampshire is mourning the atrocity visual of profligate
Basingstoke. Stalinist Council as in Camden, or galivanting
bulk build, abusing God, towering. Blot on the landscape ).
Nowa Huta (1949) rose near Krakow, un peu Romanesque,
ordering ideal achievment with a sense of grandeur, oddly.
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During that dreadful summer, the summer of a total dread
to many dead, no doubt Joan, in evening coffee at Denham
regaled Lord Vansittart, if new to him, her father's second
favourite after dinner tale, his first one being how he blew
the German-held ridge at Messines, in 1917 ; but not now
to be repeated. His more appropriate tale, from The Anglo-
Boer War, would charm a Peer of Dutch ancestry. Namely
that Ralph, enlisted as a trooper in the elite Paget's Horse,
was drafted into one of Lord Methuen's (Flying) Columns
for West Transvaal, and in interview, Ralph said : his most
terrifying experience was when his horse was struck dead
by lightning when he was standing beside it. Otherwise, he
said General Methuen, from the period, stood out vividly
even today for him and Trooper Rose, of lime-juice fame.
I am sure Lord Vansittart may then have said : thank you
Joan, for that. Maybe : Le probleme, etait que La France
had few Flying Columns, and The Army sang on une litre
de vin rouge par tete per diem ! yes. ( As a young attache'
in Paris, he had had a Play of his performed at Le Theatre
Moliere pour six semaines ). Where did I garner the facts ?
To my shock, I came across a Joan-gifted, long lost book
at 3 pm, on Christmas Day afternoon, bent for a Carol CD.
At the bottom of a deeper book tray lay The Professionals
(The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy 1892-1992) by
A. J. Wilson (1991). Low on the book cover, a photograph
instantly recognizable, of Ralph in 'Brigadier' peaked Hat.
I nearly fainted. Journal there for my Lunch cracker repast..
and, after study, I have noted variants between the official,
and the familial, anecdotal, accounts of Ralph's parting for
war, from South Africa, for London, and The War Office...
was this some form of cover-up ? I must explain. Anecdote
has it General Ironside 'in cabinet' told The British Cabinet :
If you go to War over Europe, you will lose The Empire. Or,
venture in...The IMM Record has it that Stokes had hurried
from South Africa as soon as he considered war inevitable..
and put himself at the disposal of The Chief of the Imperial
General Staff, General Ironside. He arrived on September
the 8th. ( War with Germany broke out on September 3rd ).
Ironside looked at him critically, and said : Stokes, you're
five days late. What if he was late to help avoid the War ?
In any event, The First Tunnelling Company (No 170) was
revived at end of 1939, at Chatham Barracks, for France.
Ralph was sent to France, early in 1940. After May 10th,
in retreats, TC 170 missed the last boat leaving Boulogne.
Many, to be POWs. Fortunately, Ralph was recalled to be
Chief Engineer, Allied Forces, Narvik, around April 1940.
I must now return to my 2 x A4 hand-written, biro vision
of December 20th. Everything is wrong with Albion now.
*
Beyond Ribbentrop, and Goebbels, for that matter. He who
reaps the whirlwind. The narrative, too assailing ; I quake
and shiver. Reggie, a Truman, retired from trading rubber
in Shanghai, in the 1920s, to Fleet, Hampshire, briefly, but
estranged by so long away, my (paternal) Grandfather fled
to renting a Chateau in Pau et Le Boulevard des Pyrenees.
A Bund, in a way, until The Wall Street Crash, and return
longing for Normandy, as well, and time spent in Vevey,
Lac Leman, or Lake Geneva, near the Chateau De Chillon
Switzerland. Denham Place stood tall in Buckinghamshire
with-a-Golf-Course, beyond the Metroland of Middlesex.
We began all this with an idea of the last bastion. Was that
Bentley Priory, before The Twin Towers reeked Byzantium
near Stanmore, which hid Headquarters Fighter Command
for Air Chief Marshal Dowding ; in The Operations Room
in The Bunker, crisp, dark-uniformed young women would
appear to be playing billiards, with our Fighter Squadrons
during The Battle of Britain, hoping for a hole, a cue sport.
"The Hardest Day" was on August 18th, 1940. Out of but
a total of 855 serviceable fighters (Hurricanes and Spitfires)
125 of them were destroyed in the air, or on the ground and
only 23 damaged on the ground. The Luftwaffe spent much
of the day bombing airfields ; lost 110 bombers and fighters.
(Notionally, the all-in RAF total : 1,438 aircraft here, there ).
Operation Sea Lion, planned for September 1940, required,
as ordered by Hitler, command of the air to enable invading
Albion. Thus, The Luftwaffe needed to gain air supremacy
for elimination of the RAF. Poring over varying numbers, in
July 1940, the RAF, after heavy losses in France, had only
527 Hurricanes and 321 Spitfires at hand able to fight ; yet,
and true numbers are hard to find, the entire British aircraft
fighter manufacturing capability was (disallowing Canada)
but an estimated 500 fighters per month, to replace the lost
if no damaged fighters could be repaired. Was there a vital
shed, to save The West ? The Hawker Hurricane, so crucial,
lay started on Canbury Park Road, Kingston-upon-Thames
for assembly in The Hawker Shed Brooklands, Weybridge,
Surrey. ( This was not bombed until September 4th 1940 ).
Therein lay the destiny of Europe.. The Hurricane credited
four fifths of the 'kills' in The Battle of Britain. Incredibly,
1,715 Hurricanes were flown in the battle. If the RAF left
the battle with their starter number, circa 1,200 Hurricanes
were destroyed. Were they ? as another source claims only
404 were destroyed, though Hurricanes accounted for 656
German aircraft downed, mostly bombers. Wikipedia says
the RAF began the battle with a strength of 1,963 aircraft,
only to have 1,744 aircraft (all types, inc. the Paul Defiant)
destroyed in battle ; while, of course, circa 1,500 new ones
were being manufactured, mostly Hurricanes. Only 208 (?)
Spitfires, attacking German fighters, were lost in combat.
The Westminster Abbey RAF Chapel Battle of Britain Roll
of Honour has it that 1,497 pilots and aircrew were killed,
or mortally wounded. Of these, Fighter Command lost 449
- or 544 elsewhere. ( Bomber Command lost 732 ; Coastal
Command, 268, often with older aircraft ). Public records
have it, that by August 1940, there was a chronic shortage
of pilots. To quote Anthony Beevor pilot losses remained
Dowding's greatest anxiety. Training could take 6 months.
His writing veers to a darker picture. To quote him again :
The vast majority of British fighter pilots were under 22.
Otherwise, Beevor wrote the RAF et al began the battle
with 2,917 aircrew, of which nearing 2,334 were British.
In August, and September, the core of the battle, the RAF
lost 723 aircraft. The Luftwaffe lost over 2,000 aircraft.
In October the RAF shot down 206 fighters and bombers.
We are getting ahead of the game, at Denham Place. Did
Lord Vansittart come back, informed, from Bentley Priory
white as a sheet ? and find Joan gazing deep into The Lake
on a beautiful August evening, winging a parasol ? sad at
The Battle of France, in reality de May 10th to May 20th
with Privy Van briefed. On May 13th France had begged
10 Hawker squadrons to operate on French soil ; and 452
Hurricanes flew out to engage in battle in France. Within
a week, only 3 out of the 10 squadrons sent out were near
operational strength. Though they had achieved 499 kills
in eleven days, 155 Hurricanes were lost in combat. 178,
damaged, had to be abandoned on airfields Merville, Lille
and Abbeville. Only 66 Hurricanes returned from France.
The balance, of 452 sent out to France, unaccounted for.
Not a subject over a fine Bordeaux claret from the cellar,
with Joan saying : they are still jaunting Saturday cricket
at remote Ebernoe Common, with such a lovely Chapel.
The green is large enough for a pleasant crash landing.
I miss it dearly, and once did some brass-rubbing there,
taken there, as a child, by Joan. A4 Page 2 of my vision,
of December 20th, is now requiring all of my attention,
if not demanding it ; what more can I say. France, finis.
Sedan will never go away. The last 3 lines on page one ?
France, and the martial spirit ; Napoleon, and Verdun.
Lord Van, may I, crafted so many Papers... Peasant rule
never works, as in Albion to date...( Hand to mouth ! ).
Is destiny a vapour trail ? or trails high over The South
Downs, or Kent. Or Putin, trying for a high culmination
to prove he is such a big boy, in Kyiv, on the back street
from ruin, to ruin, then everlasting ruin ; I digress, again,
in my distraction game of fathoming the libera nos chair
in which La Belle died more than once, on Vin de Pays ;
it is beyond me to explain how Napoleon, heading East,
led to The Iron Cross, with their aristocratic gold gone.
Did anyone say Action Replay, thrice ? and Hitler failed
to remember the cardinal ruling of Frederick The Great,
to die in front of a painting, with Prussia ever but dying.
*
Lord Van, may I, knew all this. Joan's epic Naval Career
is a way ahead. Denham, to which I return in detail, is on
The River Melbourne. Caroline Knight (2009) has been
superbia on The Place, and London's Country Houses ;
much has yet to be recovered. We miss Holland House
in toto ; Foot's Cray Place, Bexley, Kent, demolished in
1949, which must be rebuilt, as must, from fire, Clandon
House ; why was Wimbledon Park House demolished in
1949, as well ; we all sorrow greatly. Osterley House, in
Park, just survived the M4 havoc ; the Northern Heights
of London feature many a beauty. At Denham, Caroline
noted The Tapestry Room, frieze dated 1693 ; in 1771,
the Drawing Room was given a neo-classical chimney-
piece of white, statuary marble. Pre-war, The Vansittarts
entertained lavishly, supported by a Staff of 12 indoor
servants, so conveniently near to London. Grave, Lady
Vansittart died in 1959, to end a sad decade for the final
local aristocracy owning big Country Houses with soul.
When she died, fondly recalling the jazzy cocktails on
the Sicilian terrace, her House, with 42 remarkable acres
went on the market ; apparently, it became Offices, but
with the return of uber wealth to London, now restored.
Am I of Bayeux, simply compiling a Tapestry ? Do they
delve in Denham ? Or are they, secretly, elves ? Do they
have selves, gummy with liquorice ? for garden gnomes.
My vision of December 20th is at an end, and as in 1948
Joan participated in The Berlin Airlift, flown seated on
a sack of potatoes, out of Hamburg, in a rumbly Dakota
we have a very, very long way to go, without grumbling.
Tax return completed, I must research Sedan I, before II
for the foreseeable future, here ; and forget though, I had
an extraordinary, terrifying nightmare ; until another day.
In reverie, a voice said : you must start again, plus Van,
with the epic Battle of Konniggratz, on July 3rd, 1866,
the decisive battle of The Austro-Prussian War, in which
The Kingdom of Prussia defeated The Austrian Empire
and, crucially, Saxony, in the second largest battle ever
or, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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THIS FOR A FURTHER JOAN PF - CARRY FORWARD
Not least the box architecture, and the grace-free architect
bonding many with no grace, and the zomb sub intelligent
less knowing than a local fox, or a Golden labrador guide.
This is off topic, a rant starting, so it must be shelved. XX
in The New Year...
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Names for The Military Tribunal pre The Old Bailey
drawn up by M19, with one pro forma charge sheet each:
Brown 'theft' of half the nation's gold; wilful destruction
of the Banking system, particularly Lloyds Bank; taking
the State to over 50 per cent of the economy; conspiracy
to murder; to name the gravest charges for the DPP ; PFI,
a State bankrupter, for the fat undeserving, still a horror
Blair The Project, to unsettle the middle classes and 'rub
their noses in it' ; The Equalities Act (we are not) ; worse,
The Race Relations Act (anti-white) ; anti Grammar School,
high Kultur ; pro the crass casual, pop music ; pro Fascist
football, with his Goebbels AC ; pro weepie, anti stiff upper
lip ; pro Diana, sinful with a Muslim ; anti Duke Edinburgh ;
failed to tell the Nation a British Princess had had carnal inter-
course with a Muslim, and, sadly, paid the price, to give stead-
ying context ( but then what did The Duke know about what
Dodi's father had got up to? ) - all horribly touch-feely, tearful...
well, Diana was not executed, for risking a Royal Muslim babe...
a horror beyond all possible belief. She was not wearing seat-
belts
Khan barkers in Barking, the ludicrous Windrush line; failing
to posit Rome as the mater and pinnacle of London, failing to
extol the work and T.S. Eliot, our greatest London poet, after
Chaucer, particularly The Wasteland and Ash Wednesday....
G. Gould totally wrecking white arty bo ho intellectual LBC;
anti a protective apartheid for whites, unless Church goers;
pro the ultra sinful Muslim corrupt tulip horror;
Sunak fleeing the beaches of Normandy;
lefties ex Cambridge at The BBC
Starmer Prize Traitor : betrayed Nato, failed to re-arm
instantly on gaining office ; behind Poland now. Lost
any sense of priority. Pro being matey with idiot mates
Group crimes : a working list
1 Allowing breaching of our borders - this, a military
matter, obviously.
2 Thus, bankrupting the nation.
3 Pushing diversity instead of core Albion culture, as
defined by CT. Post modernism is a form of treason.
4 Fattening the proletariat so as to buy votes ; a crime.
5 Brain-washing via the BBC
Text Cycle for Military Tribunal : copied to booklet
by biro for A to proof-read.....for global selling
Sinner Starmer
New Year's Day 2025
He gave The Devil cf Khan
a Knighthood ; and thus, only
fit for the Dungeon
along with Gordon
Brown, in The Tower
Message For PM
From : Virgin Mary.
Every unreformed Jew
sin, to be dealt with
or, sinner, be dealt with
*
Anti-sem'tism
can be justified.
Appalling parents
Jan 3rd Latin Mass+
Via Sacra
The Path of Beauty
in The Rosary Chapel,
the Virgin simper.
Jan 4th
Freeing Albion for The Times
Islamophobia
a national requirement,
not a liberty.
Sed libera nos a malo,
sed libera nos a alienos
a Battle of Britain.
*
Another point of view
is treason, a date on
Tower Green.
The Overground
Lack of discipline,
Khan, amok in the horror
run of gibbering
the end of the line,
packed 'til. They are better dead
barkers in Barking.
Blackening Blackstock
January 5th
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Redacted text, awaiting events :
After Coloured Assault
Births caught exceeding
the population
cap, be painlessly drugged,
for fast disposal
in the Hospital
incinerator
to save the nation,
or to a guarded Orphanage
in Saudi or Rwanda.
January 6th after
8 am assault by 4
end of MT Cycle
THE HORROR STOREY OF THE WORTHLESS
FAIREY BATTLE AT SEDAN - THANKS TO
DODO BALDWIN OF BIRMINGHAM --- TO
RESEARCH. 60 PER CENT LOSSES AT SEDAN -
SOME RAIDS, 100 PER CENT LOST.
then synopsis of London films
then Ironside and Ralph working
in Home Guard
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