CANNOT BE BROKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 2

CANNOT BE BROKEN

THE BRITISH SPIRIT. NO PESSIMISM AT HOME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. August 26. The deep conviction that the Germans would be unable to break down the spirit of the British people in spite of continuous bombing raids and attempts at a food blockade was expressed by Mr E. F. B. Curtiss. London. who is visiting New Zealand with his wife and family. He was a major in the last war and served for a long period in the Air Force. He has been an eyewitness of many dog-fights over England in the past few weeks. “There is no pessimism at Home,” he said. “We owe our good stocks of food in Britain to the Dominions. We can never forget what they have done and are doing.” What Mr Curtiss has seen of air combats has convinced him of the superiority of British pilots and machines. The Nazis, he said, must have j received a severe shock when they found what they were up against. Mr Curtiss paid a special tribute to Dominion flyers.