SPIRIT OF BRITAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 8

SPIRIT OF BRITAIN

“WE ARE ALL HERE” HEROISM OF MOTHERS HITLER’S BIG TASK (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 10 One of the many pictures of air raid damages published recently in the newspapers shows a small inn in a south-west suburb of London littered with debris, its walls cracked, and its windows smashed. The publican has hung out Union Jacks and put up a notice-board on which is written: “Fags and beer, We are all herei 1 ’ That is typical of the spirit of Britain, Other photographs depict victims with bandaged limbs laughing in front of their homes, which, on emerging from their shelters, they found smashed. These are what Dr. Goebbels calls “the fear-crazed English.” There are no people in the world like them. They are showing a courage that probably has never been shown so widely anywhere. Splendid heroines are the mothers who, without dismay or panic, carry their babies in their arms to the shelters. To win the war, Hitler will have to do it over the dead bodies of the whole nation. Records to Dominions Anyone can visit the towns and the countryside and judge of the morale of the British for himself; but it is not possible to give a complete picture of the material damage done. All that can be said is that the damage as a whole, whether to aerodromes and factories or to other places, will require to be much more extensive before the war effort is seriously affected. Complete records are despatched to the Governments of the Dominions, which can make their own assessment. They are also likewise informed of production figures and can relate actual losses of men and machines to these.