At (censored) literally hundreds of German planes would come over and be attacked and turned back by our marvellous men, One: would watch the Aight take place miles up and then see the trail of Huns um back. Certainly we realized what Churchill meant by "never had so many owned so much to so few." "Our young gardener, who 1g 20, volunteered and was stationed at (......) where they have a very bad time. He has been guarding an aerodrome which is) being attacked all the time, He told me he marvelled at the way our pilots would come down to. refuel and step out as coolly as anything while they were being bombed and machine-gunned all the time. Truly. no Greek god excelled them.
Erle has had a house job at St. Thomas's for the last six months and was there for the frst two months of the blitzkrieg. St, Thomas's had a terrible time and has been repeat edly bombed. There have been a lot of casualties amongst the nursing staff and the ARP, workers, One of the first attacks' demolished the nurses' quarters and Erie's room was completely smashed; luckily he was fon duty elsewhere that night, All patients, except emergencies in the JSasement had been sent to the country after Dunkirk, but those left had 198 to how the matter should be hand~ Tod has been affected and modified by what T have seen."
He added that he was deferring any statement, on the subject until he appears before the Senate Foreign Kelations Committee, probably on Mr. Willkie parried all question relating to Ireland, but told reporters cagerly how he had talked with itérally thousands of people of all classes." Mr. Willkie looked tired after his strenuous adventure but ap= peared happy and ratified with his contact with wartime Britain, " fe whom he repeatedly expressed sximiration—Reuter.
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