Churchill and Malta by Douglas Austin

Author:Douglas Austin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750967044
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Within a very few days of his becoming Prime Minister the whole machinery of government was working at a pace, and with an intensity of purpose, quite unlike anything that had gone before.

To this John Colville, who had been Chamberlain’s Private Secretary and then had held the same position under Churchill, added that ‘respectable civil servants were actually be seen to be running along the corridors.’23 Churchill’s enormous energy was such that despite the growing threat of an attempted invasion of England Churchill made time to keep a close eye on developments at Malta. On 23 June he sent the first of many signals to the Acting Governor, General Dobbie, which read:

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