The Archive · 1941

How Do they Take It?

"How do the people take it when thousands of tons of bombs are rained down on their homes? Tre Cockney's answer to Hitler is the one that everybody gives—'It don't zet tim nowhere,' They do not feel intimidated, they do not feel heroic, they accept the fact that bombs may come and carry on with their work, The experience makes them think, yes; but their thoughts are like the comment of the man who pointed to a crucifix hanging untouched in a Church that has been almost destroyed: "There's something "Iter can't knock out,'

"What goes on in those interminable rows of grey streets that stretch out mile upon mile in the industrial areas of England, of Scotland and of Weles? Do you suppose they are forever thinking about the next raid and their chances of escape? If you do you will be mistaken for life goes en there as it always did with things of the moment uppermost in the peoples minds. Their work at the fictory that is going full blast as usual. Their dinner which perhaps they will have at one of the new communal feeding centres instead of at home. A game of darts at ye pub with some soldiers from a near-camp, and that is perhaps as near they will get to talking about the

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