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Songs of the People
Songs of the People @SongsotPeople ·
"I am so thankful you have got one of my letters. I have a horrible feeling you are not awfully well. How I long to look after you." #thisweek 80 years ago Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe shows frustration at the erratic post & long separation from husband David whilst he was in Nuremberg.
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Songs of the People
Songs of the People @SongsotPeople ·
'I hope you have had a slight rest over the weekend and feel alright to continue your spectacular performance' David Maxwell Fyfe's wife Sylvia is well aware of the pressure of the Nuremberg schedule as this intimate insight from #thisweek 80 years ago reveals. #Nuremberg80
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Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE
Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE @IrelandOSCE ·
#ThisWeek at the @OSCE 🇮🇪 💠Participated in meeting of the Security, Economic/Environ & Human Dimension Cttees on better use of tech 💠Thanked 🇫🇷 for its highly productive term as FSC Chair 👏 💠Joined 🇪🇺 colleagues in mee@ting with @SRKariJohnstone & planning the yyr6U8z8vyL
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Songs of the People
Songs of the People @SongsotPeople ·
'We have finished with Goering and on Monday I hope to have a go at Hess' David Maxwell Fyfe reveals the packed schedule at the Nuremberg Trials in this letter home to his wife Sylvia #thisweek 80 years ago. #Nuremberg80
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Songs of the People
Songs of the People @SongsotPeople ·
'The genius of the place is Sir David Maxwell Fyfe who so far excels the other prosecutors that he has almost played them off the stage' Atticus @thetimes reports how the British prosecutor is making his mark at the Nuremberg Trials #thisweek 80 years ago. #Nuremberg80
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Songs of the People
Songs of the People @SongsotPeople ·
'Your voice and whole personality came right into the room...' #thisweek 80 years ago Sylvia Maxwell Fyfe writes to her husband, David of her visit to @BBC to hear a recording they had made of his cross-examination of Hitler's deputy at the Nuremberg Trials. #Nuremberg80
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Ron Lacy
Ron Lacy @LRonLacy ·
#THISWEEK in 1952 In *Collier’s* for March 22, 1952, inaugurating the magazine’s historic series of articles “Man Will Conquer Space Soon” (1952-1954) [Part 5 of 5] 🧵�Tw
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Past Tense
Past Tense @_pasttense_ ·
#ThisWeek in London Rebel out-story, 1974: South London Gay Centre squat opened, Railton Road, Brixton… a seminal space with connections from the Gay Liberation Front to Gay squats and housing co-ops that still flourish in the same area today wp.me/p74yfw-u1
Today in London gay history: the South London Gay Centre evicted, Brixton, 1976

In 1972, some transpontine activists in the Gay Liberation Front founded a South London branch, which initially met from 1972 in the Minet Library, North Brixton. Among their early actions was stre…

From pasttense.co.uk
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Songs of the People
Songs of the People @SongsotPeople ·
'David Maxwell Fyfe’s skills in cross-examination alone saved the reputation of the court' Guy Ramsay @MailOnline reports on the way he brought Hitler's deputy Goering down to size #thisweek in 1946, marking the moment David began to step noticeably out onto the world stage.
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