ON THIS DAY

JULY 6,2018

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JULY 6, 1940

EVERY ship leaving Britain for America from now until the end of August has been commandeered for the evacuation of children. Mr J. Roland Robinson, MP for Blackpool, said yesterday that he hoped 30,000 British youngsters would have arrived in America by the end of next month. JULY 6, 1956 A BATTLE between Britain’s doctors on whether they should smoke at their annual conference at Brighton is to reopen this morning. Normally, the BMA meeting is held in a thick haze of smoke. It was Dr J. O. McDonagh of Perth — he used to smoke 20 a day as well as a pipe — who broke tradition. ‘Ridiculous,’ he said. ‘A large proportion of us are convinced there is a relationship between smoking and disease.’