Was this the biggest waste of money in history?Today in 1938 35 million gas masks were provided in Britain against the use of Phosgene, Mustard Gas and the ghastlies which the beastly Hun' had unleashed in WWI. You had to carry the damn thing everywhere with you an practice using it for ten minutes a day. Little babies suffered untold traumas by being shoved into whole-body equivalents called Mickey Mouse (and no one knows why - they were about as much like Mickey Mouse as identical twins Danny de Vito and Arnie Schwarznegger). Oh, and the gas mask filter contained asbestos, by the way.
In other news ...
Crime writer Dashiel Hammett was jailed today for refusing to testify before Joe McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. He was one of many high-profile targets of McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt which ruined careers and created an appalling element of mistrust. In the land of the free, the only Un-American Activity was that carried out by Joe McCarthy.
Mrs Whatmough models her methods on those of her hero Joe - Nolan and his class recently invoked the fifth over some issues concerning gym kit and won the day. I am so proud of that boy!
