The Spirit of the Nobodies
ND the spirit of the Nobodies in London is another theme in this heartening book. After all, he says, how could Hitler know the spirit abiding in London’s mean streets where the Nobodies live? He had never heard of it. That spirit is older than the Abbey. It built the Abbey. Hitler learnt what he knows of us from Ribbentrop, and that precocious, student won his information at dinners, while Ambassador in London, from a light and vain circle, as remote as its lapdogs from the common English life, which keeps the chimneys smoking and the wheels turning. Speaking of the East-Enders, he says, "They are never seen in fashionable circles, which is a pity, because knowledge of what takes place when they are upset does not sufficiently circulate." "Faith saved the city from destruction," he said, "as they cut off roaring gas mains, stopped the cataracts from fractured conduits, doused the volcanoes, and got out the dead and
| dving."-
-("The Wind is Rising,’ by
H.
M.
Tomlinson
Reviewed by Miss
G. M.
Glanville
3YA, April 7.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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182The Spirit of the Nobodies New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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