MR WENDELL WILLKIE
EXPERIENCE OF AIR RAID IN DOVER DAMAGED TEMPLE VISITED IN LONDON. DISGUST AT USELESS DESTRUCTION During a visit to Dover yesterday bv Mr. Wendell Willkie. the 8.8.C’ reports, the anti-aircraft guns went into action. An earlier Press Association message states that in London. Lord Simon showed Mr. Willkie some of the damage to the Temple. Mr. Willkie was obviously upset by the ruins and remarked: "This destruction, is all so utterly useless from the point of view of Germany's war efi'ort." Later he accepted a glass of brandy from the famous cellars, and gave a six-word toast. "To the restoration of the Temple."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 5
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106MR WENDELL WILLKIE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 5
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