The Archive · 1939

Fine Democracy

In the event of an air-raid on London, people caught in the streets will be at liberty to use the nearest air-raid shelter, no matter whether it be a "dug-out" in a public park or a privately-built refuge in a fashionable hotel. The King, too, will take cover in the nearest available shelter. Monarch and subject, lord and commoner, duke and dustman, may find themselves meeting the common danger on terms of equality.

The Duke of Alba, Spanish Ambas-sado, will share with all his staff the air-raid shelter erected at the Spanish Embassy. Curiously enough, the shelter built at tne Soviet Embassy has been divided into separate compartments: one for M. Maisky, and his secretaries, another for the staff.

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

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