“ARE WE DOWN-HEARTED?”

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 7

“ARE WE DOWN-HEARTED?”

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL CHEERED WONDERFUL SPIRIT OF BRITISH PEOPLE WAR OF TERROR MORALE NOT AFFECTED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 11, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 10 The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, made a further visit to the damaged areas in London this morning. One area visited was the city, where bombs were dropped last night and early this morning. Mr Churchill was recognised by crowds of city workers and was loudly cheered. One man raised the shout: “Are we down-hearted ?” which was followed almost immediately by a full-throated roar, “No” from thousands of workers. Later Mr Churchill lunched with the King at Buckingham Palace. The unshakeable calm, the increased spirit of determination aroused, and the amazing speed with which the wreckage has been cleared away are features of the public reaction to the London air raids, which have most impressed foreign press observers, w’ho have been given complete freedom to visit the scenes of destruction. The London correspondent of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, who visited three dock areas which suffered most severely, confirms, according to a press despatch from Zurich, that it is principally civilian properties and not military objectives which have suffered. “Although the war of terror has been started against London,” he adds, “the results so far are mere scratches on the giant frame of Britain’s capital.”