BRITISH SPIRIT
REFLECTED IN WAR-TIME STORIES
Thus an American journal dealing with the spirit of Britain:— There was the old Cockney woman who said it would take more than Hitler to get her away from lier before";- Whiteehapel. There Avas the old lady on ithe other side of the town who told the air warden she was waiting for a bus, and she didn't propose to miss the next one on account of Goering. There was the little boy who took ti note to school asking to be excused for coming lale, hut they hadn't been able to dig him out sooner. How many of the stories were authentic and how many invented does not matter. The point is that in the United .Stales we thought they displayed a Avonderl'iDl spirit. That is the way Great Britain managed to get through her darkest hour. She got through (1) by feeling sure of victon-, and (2) by doing all that licr leaders called upon her to do-.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 1, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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166BRITISH SPIRIT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 1, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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