![]() (He had been at the Potsdam Conference, meeting the UK's prime minister Winston Churchill and the Russian leader Joseph Stalin to discuss how to sort out post-war Europe). Ladybirds are quite difficult to dislodge, and the rhyme, when recited, was traditionally supposed to induce them to fly off of their own accord.Īlthough the count-down had begun long before, the final order to drop 2 atomic bombs on Japan was given by President Harry Truman - who himself was in the air at the time, flying home from Germany. ![]() ![]() There are numerous explanations for it, too. 'ladybirds': there are numerous versions (not all in English) of the nursery rhyme which begins, 'Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children are gone'. In ancient legend salamanders were supposed to be able to live in fire. 'salamanders': a salamander is a lizard-like amphibian with a smooth skin. 'drizzle': this means 'rain lightly', but here is used to evoke the way the bees descend, buzzing, on to the flowers. 'Marilyn's skirts': there is a famous film clip/still photograph of the American movie star Marilyn Monroe, in which she walks over a pavement air vent and the warm air from it blows the full skirt of her light-coloured dress upwards over her head. ' Enola Gay': this was the name given to (and painted on) the plane which carried the bomb to Hiroshima.
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