tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post2457369743675490174..comments2024-03-11T17:08:07.679+01:00Comments on Sicily Scene: THE ARANDORA STARWelshcakes Limoncellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-86691738392879430852009-11-28T20:40:03.056+01:002009-11-28T20:40:03.056+01:00Hi, Claudia. Thank you for sharing this story, wh...Hi, Claudia. Thank you for sharing this story, which I didn't know about. How dreadful. It makes me ashamed to be British.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-34230456704987005492009-11-28T19:39:56.662+01:002009-11-28T19:39:56.662+01:00One more horror story...In those days, I was a wee...One more horror story...In those days, I was a wee girl growing up in Montreal, and I remember vividly my mother coming home, filled with anger and crying her heart out. Our good family friend (Antonio Capobianco) who had helped her to elect Prime Minister Mackenzie King, was on his way, with his whole family (children born in Canada) to a concentration camp. To the everlasting shame of my country, our Canadian Italians, Japaneses and German Jewish were incarcerated during the war, on the order of Winston Churchill. They lost all their possessions, and couldn't communicate with families in their mother countries. It took years for Canada's officials to admit and recognise the cruelty and the injustice of it all. Finally, in 1988, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney apologised, in Parliament, to the survivors of our concentration camps.<br /><br />As my brother (who fought in WW2) always said: <i>Et tu, Brutus.</i>Claudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04307495672130972111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-75080504878190923682009-10-30T23:34:02.351+01:002009-10-30T23:34:02.351+01:00Hi, WW. No,I haven't seen that.Hi, WW. No,I haven't seen that.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-54052058643891524872009-10-29T14:43:38.605+01:002009-10-29T14:43:38.605+01:00"All's fair in love and war," they s..."All's fair in love and war," they say. Have you seen that a UN representative is questioning the legality of the US use of drones in Afghanistan?Whispering Wallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410656699815679312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-45499334217634205332009-10-29T02:43:42.470+01:002009-10-29T02:43:42.470+01:00Hi, Pink. Yes, those were dreadful events in WW11....Hi, Pink. Yes, those were dreadful events in WW11.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-84658142102872479392009-10-28T23:09:57.472+01:002009-10-28T23:09:57.472+01:00I'm sure this is just one of the many unforuna...I'm sure this is just one of the many unforunate results of WWII. The USA, like Canada, interned many Japanese and they lived is horrid conditions.PinkAcornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890046314872288607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-22708898208182108062009-10-27T10:58:08.494+01:002009-10-27T10:58:08.494+01:00Hi, Trubes. Thank you for sharing this story of yo...Hi, Trubes. Thank you for sharing this story of your grandfather. I'm sure you are right and there was a news blackout. Such a tragic loss, as you say. What a tragic story about your young uncle, too. War should never be glorified, in my opinion. <br />Hi, jams. I didn't know that the guards commander was court martialled. Thank you for the book recommendation - that sounds interesting. I think the memorial is a worthy cause, too. <br />Hi, jmb. I hadn't realised that the Japanese were rounded up in Canada as well as in the USA. You are right - we do terrible things when we are afraid and, as Madame Roland said on the scaffold, "O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom!"Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-46833935633278973712009-10-26T23:42:57.862+01:002009-10-26T23:42:57.862+01:00What a sad horrible story Welshcakes.
Here the ...What a sad horrible story Welshcakes. <br /><br />Here the Canadians rounded up the Japanese, many of whom had been born here, and took their property and interned them. <br /><br />What we do in the name of fear.jmbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13563252743976699923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-81598906453625819322009-10-26T12:25:03.397+01:002009-10-26T12:25:03.397+01:00It was a dreadfl incident that should never have h...It was a dreadfl incident that should never have happened. It is ironic that one of the heroes of this event was a German, Otto Burfeind, the captain of a merchantman who was one of the internees on the vessel. The comma<br /><br />Worse still, the survivors were put on the Dunera. Their treatment on board was so bad that the commander of the guards, Lt Col William scott was court martialled.<br /><br />I know I am digressing but I would recommed an excellent book called the Kings Loyal Enemy Aliens by Helen Fry that documents the part played by the 10,000 German and Austrian men and women who served in British forces during WWII<br /><br />Back to the memorial, I think it is well worth supporting. Thanks for drawing my attention to itjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-40406826140933921682009-10-26T11:27:03.015+01:002009-10-26T11:27:03.015+01:00I read this item about The Arandora Star with grea...I read this item about The Arandora Star with gread interest,<br />Welshcakes.<br />My Grandfather, who was a Coppersmith at Camellairds shipyard in Birkenhead, helped build The Arandora Star in 1929.<br />When I was a child he used to talk about the great Ship and mourned the sinking of it.<br />He didn't speak of the passengers though. No doubt there was a news blackout.<br />What a tragic loss of innocent lives in such a needless operation.<br />My Uncle Jack, my mother's younger brother, was rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk.<br /> I wonder whether it was The Andora Star that rescued him and his comrades.<br />After he survived Dunkirk he went back to the War, then, was captured by the Germans off a Greek island. <br />He was blindfolded, trussed and shot dead. He was 21 years old.<br /><br />There is a memorial plaque to the poor people who lost their lives, on The Andora Star, at the<br />Pierhead in Liverpool.<br /><br />Di.xTrubeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com