I seem to remember it from his book series about wwii. Note "seem".
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:51 PM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat <churchillchat@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > A colleague writes : > > I finding it very difficult to trace an origin for the phrase "Action This > Day," employed by the Churchill ministry during WWII. Although I have found > non-Churchillian origins for a great number of wartime things credited to > him, I can't find anything about this (not even a reference to when > Churchill himself might have conceived it). I strongly suspect that it was > invented by a civil servant or whatever passed for an organizational > management guru in those days, but so far I've had no luck. It may also have > been a Bletchley-Park-ism, but I can't find that either. > > Any clues ? Any references to books or articles ? > > With all best wishes, > > Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS > British Studies > University of Rouen > 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan > France > antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr > > 'Britain since 1914' Section Editor > Royal Historical Society Bibliography > > Reviews Editor of CERCLES > http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html > ========================================== > > > > > --- > L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le > logiciel antivirus Avast. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
