There is therefore a bigger run on the sales which started punctually yesterday morning with swarms of Buyers, as if London had not just had the biggest air attack it has endured. There wes plenty to buy and for this Beautiful Casualty T had a good look at St. Bride's, "the journalists! church." today, which suffered cruelly by Sunday night's fire bombs, So far as one can see from the outside the walls and the lovely spire, all but of stone, fare unharmed, though the root one and the' inside. burnt out. Tt waa one of Wren's most beautiful buildings, the inside gorgeously painted and with much fine carved oak work. The original church dated from 1291, After the Great Fire Wren rebuilt it! in 1690, Tt has tittle attention to her. Then she went to Germany where Goering and Goebbels fluttered her inordinately. Hence she is violently anti-British and pro-Nazi.
Somehow one thinks of the theory put forward by Sir-Neville Henderson, our late Ambassador in Berlin, that the marriage of Field-Marshal von Blomberg with a beautiful typist, mésallianee which forced his retirement into private life and thus (according to the Ambassador) removed from Hitler the one strong moderating influence that he respect~ ed. may have had much to do with the making of the war. Itis a strange world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.