Stockton and the Kaiser
Sir: I refer to Lord Stockton's tear-jerker, that the miners are 'the men who took on the armies of Hitler and the Kaiser'. Taken in a literal sense, probably the only person now associated with the miners, and likely to have had any connection with the Kaiser, would be Mr MacGregor, who would have been about five at the time. More to the point, I am able to recall, if not the 'dark days before El Alamein', at least the later years of the war. And I do have the distinct recollection of hearing of a threat by Winston Churchill to have troops fire on miners if they persisted with their strike threat, at that crucial time. Has there been a substitution of armies some- where, or is old age playing tricks with my memory also?
R. Newby
Ullandhaugveien 72a, Stavanger 4000, Norway
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