This air menace has brought every home into the front line. No one is safe. No child, even, is safe. The whole population ofthe British Isle is in the war. zone. We look up into the blue sky of these September days and wonder when they are coming. Every man api woman has a gas mask slung across the shoulders or carried in a vanity bag. Tonight or tomorrow a foul breath may creep down London streets. Incendiary bombs may fall, making London a city of flame. N The long preparations for war, which a thousand times was said not to be inevitable, prepared the British mind for what might come. The crisis of September a year ago, when we stood on the edge of a dark pit two and a half hours away from its furnace fires, was a terrifying shock which awoke the nation to grim reality. In 1914 Britain was unprepared. In 1939-on the first day of the war it was prepared in its soul and its national organization for defence.
Union's Supreme ace des The evacuation from London and other great cities was carried out, as vall the world knows, without a hitch.
From London alone went more than
homes by a Pied Piper who sent a whisper over many " wires. Everything was ready for them, and it was certainly a marvellous demonstration not only of efficient organization but of the charity and kindliness of all British folk who have filled their own houses with these litle refugees, abandoning their own comfort to make these little ones happy,
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