MUCH MORE THAN NUISANCE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 6

MUCH MORE THAN NUISANCE

Flying-Bomb Campaign OBSERVER’S REPORT FOR AMERICANS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received July 5, 8.15 p.w.) NEW YORK, .Inly 4. '•Visitors arriving in Loudon from the United States reveal that people abroad have little or no conception of what the people of southern England are undergoing,” says the London correspondent of the “New York Times." This is due partly to the rigid censorship on outgoing dispatches and partly to misguided efforts to laugh off Hitler’s secret weapon as no more than a nuisance. ‘•Actually the Battle of Britain has been reopened with a new technique where it was broken off in 1941 by the battered Luftwaffe. To the millions of people who lie down at nights not knowing whether they will live to see another day there is nothing trivial or comic about the hying bomb.” The correspondent also states: "An interesting psychological aspect of the jiying-bombings of southern England is the manner in Which the American troops rind the British people are bein" drawn together. Nothing since Pearl Harbour has done so much to bridge the gap between the Britishers and their overseas Visitors. The Americans are not only getting their first taste of what the British underwent during the blitz, but the British are also able to see the average American kid’s warm-hearted sympathy and readiness to help anyone in distress. “Newspapers which only recently printed letters complaining about the Americans’ snatching taxis and usurping places in the best restaurants and theaires, are now tilled with praise for the I Americans’ aid in digging victims from the wreckage of homes. Hitler’s flying I bombs have done more to t-einent BritishAmerican relations at the level where they count most than all the committees established for that purpose since the war began.”