The Archive · 1940

A London Letter

London, Nov. 21.

With only two days grace remaining we are all rushing round to register at the shops where we hope yet our butter, bacon, margarine and sugar. At least those of us who can't find a more competent member of the household to do it for us. Nobody knows yet when rationing fg actually to begin, Sometimes we hear that stocks are' temporarily low But that lois more slut is on the way; sometimes that there are huge Socks in the country but that the future supply may not be so good Hitherto there has really. been very Alte inconvenience, around London practically mone, And as we still Seem to have a pretty ood command of the sea, in spite of the Nazis, according to their radio, having sunk practically all the British Navy, we await. the future with confidence. do anything except what Nature designed them to no. So now, it seems, we must start alli over again,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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