Captain Edward V. Kinross:
Most of you've seen the commissioning program published in Plymouth General Orders. And you will have noted that this allows the customary three weeks. Well, you've all read your papers and you know that Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin yesterday. As I see it, that means war next week. So I will give you not three weeks but exactly three days to get this ship ready to sail. None of us will turn in or take our clothes off or sling our hammocks for the next three days or nights till the job's finished. Then we'll send Hitler a telegram saying, "The Torrin's ready. You can start your war."
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05/03/2025 alle ore 07:34