Louis Le Bailly Quotes

Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le Bailly, KBE, CB was a Royal Navy officer who became director-general of intelligence and later a writer. Wikipedia

✵ 18. July 1915 – 3. October 2010

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Louis Le Bailly Quotes

“The surrender and succeeding jubilation was rightly American but, as Admiral Fraser appreciated, Britain and the Commonwealth had now been at war for six long years less a day. If the forenoon had been American, then the evening would be British. The last sunset ceremony had been carried out on the evening of September 2,1939. Since then the White Ensign had flown in every ship by day and night. Admiral Fraser ordered the resumption of sunset routine as from September 2, 1945 and invited all the senior officers of British ships in Tokyo, and a token number of sailors from each, to witness the ceremony in his flagship. He was dissuaded from firing a sunset gun in case some trigger-happy American or Japanese thought the war had re-started.”

Louis Le Bailly

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