A LETTER FROM BIG BROTHER BILL
Deer Bairns,— Hjere is always some good fellow who leaves something worth remembering to the world. Brother Bill read the other day of the passing of one of these fine men—Mr George Lansbury, a member of Britainis Parliament. When Brother Bill was a lad, no older than come of you who read this page, he met George,” as he was called by thousands who knew and loved him. He lived in Poplar, a crowded suburb of East London that has borne its full share of the horrible bombing of women and children now happening in the world’s finest and bravest city. Now George Lansbury lives for ever in the hearts of good men everywhere. He has left the world in the midst of war, yet his last great hope and belief, we may be sure, would be that war will pass away for ever. He hated it. He hated poverty, injustice, and cruelty, and all the evil things that rob man-
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Evening Star, Issue 23686, 20 September 1940, Page 3
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167A LETTER FROM BIG BROTHER BILL Evening Star, Issue 23686, 20 September 1940, Page 3
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