Innumerable public-houses were wrecked, as if the Germans had deliberately aimed their high explosive: these centres where beer-dun! Britons gather nightly to discuss the day's events.
I saw havoc, destruction and dea on all sides, but during the tour the taxi sometimes travelled miles where there was not a sign of destruction. In these miles of tranquil, norma! London peace of the sort that pre-Vailed before the war still reigned.
Children played in the streets. Women gathered in front of stores. Passers-by exchanged pleasantries. There was no horror in these districts, but I wondered what the forthcoming night would bring them—whether, if I toured these peaceful streets again I would find them in shambles similar to other bombed areas.—United Press.
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