Talk:Action This Day (memo)

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To Add[edit]

I will add the references. Also eventually as an appendix the text of the memo. Hugo999 (talk) 22:16, 23 October 2022 (UTC) NB: For full text see external link. Hugo999 (talk) 11:00, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Harvie-Walker was a red herring[edit]

Our article followed Smith in Station X by having Milner-Barry give the letter to one Brigadier Harvie-Walker, Churchill's principal private secretary. Unfortunately, there does not seem ever to have been a Brigadier Harvie-Walker, nor did Churchill have a principal private secretary of that name regardless of rank. Churchill did, however, have a principal parliamentary secretary George Harvie-Watt, who was a Brigadier, and is the person Milner-Barry says he handed the letter to at Number 10. I have corrected the article accordingly, using the chapter from Copeland's The Essential Turing as reference. I was put on to the right man by IP 142.112.221.64 at the Humanities RefDesk, to whom we owe our thanks. DuncanHill (talk) 10:55, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]