The Archive · 1940

Dictator" Tours City People Given Opportunity To Talk Freely

Admiral Sir Edward Evans, newly appointed "Shelter Dictatot" of Greater London, carried out another tour of London's air raid shelters last night for several hours. He was accompanied by Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, Minister of Health, Lord Horder, Chairman of the Horder Committee which is advising the Government on the shelter question, and Mr, W. Mabane, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security.

The tour included visits to tube stations, including Holborn and Liverpool Street, and many types of public shelters in the city at Finsbury, Holborn and Bethnal Green.

Mr, Evans and his party talked freely with the people in the shelters who immediately recognized him and often cheered him for several minutes. The visit ended at the Finsbury Town Hall in the early hours while an anti-aircraft barrage was in full blast. Shrapnel was falling round the party as it drove away.—British Official Wireless.

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