Thank you for posting this. I hadn’t heard of HMT Lancastria. A terrible tragedy.
Thanks so much for the post. Important story.
>At the time of the tragedy Winston Churchill put a 100 year embargo on the story because he felt the British people could not face any more bad news.
This makes no sense. I would understand a year, maybe even 5 or 10 years. But a 100? “Let’s make sure no one alive or their children can hear this story!”
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Thank you for posting this. I hadn’t heard of HMT Lancastria. A terrible tragedy.
Thanks so much for the post. Important story.
>At the time of the tragedy Winston Churchill put a 100 year embargo on the story because he felt the British people could not face any more bad news.
This makes no sense. I would understand a year, maybe even 5 or 10 years. But a 100? “Let’s make sure no one alive or their children can hear this story!”
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