#1940 - 1940

 

1940

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24.iv.25

1940

 

no Olympics

but Tokyo would come to us

 

the Winter War, the phony war

Dunkirk, then the Blitz begins

 

and rationing

beginning of the finest hour

 

Hung Parliament in Canberra

Ming still ruling

the Auschwitz kickoff

 

Lascaux discovered

 

The Great Dictator premieres

Fantasia

40,000 horsemen

Melbourne’s double deckers

 

I remember as if it were yesterday

the gene pool safe in Australia now

 

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

Einstein’s officially a Yank

Bugs Bunny’s debut for leaven

 

Captain America appears

the great arsenal of democracy

 

already over the rainbow twelve months

John Steinbeck goes fishing

 

reminds me of my own year now

how the worst is yet to come