The Archive · 1940

No Crying for Peace

"But there was no inching before Hitler's attempted intimidation, no corying for peace, no suggestion that, though we were almost down, that we had had enough.

"Simple victims blown from hearth and home declared they would stick Aierald wardens, men and wom= eh, fire Mghters, police, doctors and ruses and voluntary services work= hour after hour, day after day, amid the bombs with' heavy casual tes until they had reseuied and tend fed the wounded. fought down the flames, and the how resources of the barrage and other devices brought the bombing under some control Ava finally. there has come the gradual polering out of the much fieralded invasion of Britain, Tha Invasion was really. broken rear ale battle—the battle in which jer tried 10 beat our ait fore and make way for his shins For fond his troops. But every day it is made more dimeult "ay our armies Frevease, as their equipment has Fenehed' a modern standard, and as our squadrons multiply and' our tion improves.

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