The Archive · 1940

Lloyd George

Veteran M.P. Declares Crisis in Struggle Clearly

Approaching as Aerial Onslaught Hits London By Davi Lioyp Grorce London, Sept. 14. must necessarily be a short article, for I have nothing to say which may not be falsified by the events of the next day or two.

We are clearly approaching a crisis in the Battle for Britain. Miltonian struggles in the air, which the world has been watching for weeks with strained necks, have passed from the Channel to London. Here we have a savage forecast of what war from the air may develop into if the struggle is prolonged and human ferocity is aroused.

It looks now as if the battle were to be fought on the narrow *Experts Declare

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