Buckingham : George Villiers (1628-87), politician, poet, playwright, chief author of The Rehearsal, a satire on heroic drama, directed in later version against John Dryden.
... know about the ‘miraculous’ escape of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. Hitler had promised that a couple of months later, more exactly on 15 August 1940, he would address the world from Buckingham Palace. August 15 is the anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and Hitler’s choice was probably not coincidental. (‘I have not seen any other person who has followed, with such extraordinary fidelity, the... country, thus bringing the Second World War to an end. The reader will remember that 15 August is the birthday of Sri Aurobindo — the day on which in 1940 Hitler intended to speak to the world from Buckingham Palace and on which India will become independent in 1947. In his high villa on the fatal hill Alone he listens to that sovereign Voice ...
... this battle and its date, the editor of Mother India wrote, "...Hitler fixed in 1940 the 15th of August as the day on which he would complete his conquest of Western Europe by broadcasting from Buckingham Palace the collapse of Britain... and on that day the largest toll so far was taken of the Luftwaffe... we will designate it as the turning point in the Battle of Britain." October 7, 1940 ... Indian hands will take place on August 15, 1947.' "Louis Mountbatten's spontaneous decision... on his own initiative was a bombshell. In the corridors of the House of Commons, Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, no one had suspected Mountbatten was ready to ring the curtain down so precipitously on Britain's Indian adventure. In Delhi, the Viceroy's most intimate collaborators had no inkling of what ...
... more elevated kind of poetry and rise to a very high level of poetic beauty,—for instance Dryden's descriptions of Absalom and Achitophel as opposed to his brilliant assault on the second duke of Buckingham. Or can we say that apart Page 78 from this question of satire we can equal together the best from poetry of a lighter kind with that which has a high seriousness or intention, for instance ...
... most dynamic push possible, short of direct occult and spiritual vision. When France lay prostrate and Hitler announced that on the fifteenth of August that year he would address the world from Buckingham Palace and the endless Luftwaffe over Britain seemed a goddess of winged victory for him, Churchill knew that there could be neither turning back nor knuckling under. Whatever his defects ...
... France decisively, Hitler now turned his attention to winning the Battle of Britain. He fixed August 15, 1940, as the day on which he would complete his conquest of Western Europe and broadcast from Buckingham Palace. When Sri Aurobindo heard of this he remarked, 'That is the sign that he is the enemy of our work.' He also indicated at this time that besides August 15, September 15 too would be a day of ...
... and on the very day Napoleon had marched against Tsar Alexander I; he also fixed in 1940 the 15th of August as the day on which he would complete his conquest of Western Europe by broadcasting from Buckingham Palace the collapse of Britain. The fall of Britain would have signed the death-warrant of the whole world outside America. August 15 was meant to be the end of World War II, with a decisive victory ...
... to a further milestone towards the Eternal. Sri Aurobindo had said: "Darshans are periods of great descents!" It was not for nothing that Hitler chose the 15th of August for his royal ascension in Buckingham Palace and got the first heavy blow. Nor was it for nothing that India gained her independence on that immortal day. Now that Sri Aurobindo was physically all right, the Mother must find some ...
... blunted, Hitler could only fret and bark against his enemies. There was a major air raid again on 7 September, and over 100 Nazi aircraft were destroyed; and on 13 September, bombs were dropped on Buckingham Palace. Two days later, Sri Aurobindo remarked: "He [Hitler] had really missed the bus!. .. Now another force has been set up against him. Still the danger has not passed." 17 It was in this ...
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