September 11th 1939

Monday September 11th

Poland are putting up a simply heroic resistance, still holding out. Is this another Marne?

Today’s turnip as usual goes to Hitler, who has issued a decree that the German troops, when he visits, are not to throw flowers at him. If they wish to show their adoration for him they are to hand their tributes to the Heimwehr.

Flowers! “Fare you well, there was more foolery yet if I could remember it”*.

*Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act I, scene ii.