The Archive · 1940

Britain Unperturbed

No one can fail to admire the calm and Population. There appear in today's issue ex-from the letter of an Englishwoman to Shanghai in which impressions of in her part of the country it is judged that, while the experience created a great deal arrangements for the safety of in the vicinity were carried out smoothly and efficiently. During the second yin More increasing awake, but made good use of their time by ut that sooner or later Setting some much needed rest. News of this Kind of thing must be a great disappoint-be the Germent to the Nazis, who have boasted of the demoralizing effects of their air attacks, doubt-Italy a less judging the British reaction by the reactions of their own people after British raids.

It is probably true that the Nazi raids up to now have been only a foretaste of what they will do, or try to do, in the future. The public has been repeatedly warned against over-confidence, and has been. bluntly told what to expect when the Germans start their aerial Blitzkrieg, The public has accepted these warnings at their face value, and carried on with "its duties calmly and without panic. Britons can be trusted to continue in this manner no "matter what Marshal Goering's air force has in ay? store for them. Can the same thing be said "for the German people? All news of the terimperial forces which odically all arid assist Britain's Tiflc damage which has been done by the raids over Germany has had to be suppressed, as the Nazis fear the effect of the news on the moral of their enslaved subjects would be disastrous. The cities where there are military objectives which have been bombed are reported to be cities of terror. Many of their inhabitants have left them, when they allowed to tell a growing hysteria in Germany which becomes more and more serious as it is re-

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