By RAE Suaw main impression of London today is Carrying on as usual'". As I listened to those reassuring words, calmly spoken by a British Broadcasting Corporation announcer in the London studios at 1 a.m. yesterday morning (Shanghai time) I "realized that Britain was going to win the war despite all the fury of Hitler's air attacks. Only about one hour before the broadcast there had been the second raid of the day after three days of indiscriminate bombing, but- was the announcer's voice filled. with terror? Was there any sign of fear as he read out his reports There was not. It did the heart a lot of good to hear the familiar "This is London calling in the overseas service of the British Broadcasting Corporation." It proved to the world at large that the an-nouricer's "Britain can take it" was indeed the truth.
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