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little churchill

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  • MaryW commented on the word little churchill

    During World War II, the BBC broadcast 15-minute radio programs from the Czechoslovak government in exile to Czechoslovakia.

    To receive the signal, Czechs had to install in their radios a homemade device&mdashcalled a "little Churchill"—involving a bedspring and a toilet paper roll. The authorities required that every radio bear a sticker warning that the penalty for tuning in to a foreign station was death. . . . Accordingly, regular listeners were careful to hide the device and to retune their radio after signing off.
    Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), p. 234

    April 5, 2016