Those who live in cities where lights do not have to be put out can hardly imagine what a town is like without them. We are cheerful people and the spirit in which London has taken both blackout and bombs as testified by all our visitors is amazing, But it is not pleasant to grope your way in pitch dark streets, which are made worse by the tiny carefully' hooded lights of buses and cars, to feel for the pavement's edge, to hear voices and not to know where they come from till you bump into the speakers, I re~ member Feading of a party who had spent the winter far up in the Arctic, When the sun at last peeped over the horizon they all became hilarious, slapped each other on the back, Iaughed uproariously at the feeble st Jokes. So we shall be glad to have more of the sun rejoicing as a giant to run his course.
"Apropos, the "Daily Express" has published a striking article by Senor del Bozo, who was sent here in September by General Franco] to report on our prospects. He came filled up with German propaganda which gets all the space in Spanish newspapers, quite sure that our days were numbered. He says that he is going back to tell General Franco that Hier cannot win. He has been allowed to see everything he wanted to see and finds that our output of war material has been very little affected by the alr-raids, though he finds them worse than anything Spain endured, But Senor del Bozo believes that! fair-raids "are useless towards winning the war, They have failed to destroy or impair the spirit of your people." He speaks of the fun that goes on night after night in dance clubs and hotels, and is particularly impress ed with the plentifulness of food. To prove that this is not only applicable to rich people is taking back to Spain several menus: from cheap eating places. Senor del Bozo concludes:
"have seen Britain stage a comeback] which we in Spain did not expect. She has the means andthe determination to wage a Jong war and to fight to the end for victory."
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