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Off topic, but it's an interesting read how they originally acquired the land for Heathrow.
by 13of40 7y ago
Off topic, but it's an interesting read how they originally acquired the land for Heathrow.
- peteretep 7y ago"Harold Balfour ... deliberately deceived the government committee into believing a requisition was necessary so that Heathrow could be used as a [military base] in support of the war with Japan. In reality, Balfour wrote that he always intended the site to be used for civil aviation, and used a wartime emergency requisition order to avoid a lengthy and costly public inquiry." British government in requisitioning other people's land shocker.