0 Have your say One hundred years ago today Portsmouth was getting set to celebrate the Armistice the following day which would lead to the end of the First World War. You get some idea of the joy that swept the nation by looking at the teeming masses gathered in Guildhall Square on the special front and back pages of The News today – a picture taken on November 11, 1918, by Southsea photographer Stephen Cribb which comes from the collection of Tony Davis. However, it could not be called the First World War as people had no idea that 21 years later the world would be cast into yet another conflict. I often wonder if we need politicians as they seem to be the people who cause wars. As I have asked before, would a baker in Portsmouth really want to kill a baker in Berlin or Tokyo? I am sure they would rather discuss different ways of baking bread. It’s perhaps a little naive of me to think this way, but I used to often visit Berlin, Verdun and Albert and all I wanted to do was talk to ordinary people in the street to find out their way of doing things. They were always responsive. If the truth were to be believed, the bombing of London civilians was an accident because a German bomber pilot lost his way and instead of dropping bombs on the docklands area he dropped them on civilians. And we know how that ended, the Blitz. Tomorrow we… [Read full story]
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