Remember When ... Demands for a Second Front at 1942 May Day parade
THE demands for a Second Front in the war against Hitler, to take some of the pressure off Stalin’s Red Army, had been growing steadily by the time Glasgow staged its May Day parade and rally in 1942. “’Second Front Now’ quickly became as much of a slogan as well as a strategy; scrawled on walls, erected into a rallying cry for Communist-organized demonstrations, and attracting the support of Lord Beaverbrook and Michael Foot, as well as, latterly, the United States Chiefs of Staff”, Roy Jenkins says in his biography of Churchill. (Foot edited the Evening Standard, which was own...
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