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SratM BARRAVECCHIA. SIMONE. On Tuesday. July 15, 1941, SIMONE BARRAVECCHIA. beloved husband of Rosa Barravecchia and father of Robert Joseph and David Barravecchia, Mrs Anna Appuglies and Mrs.

Josephine Rizzo Funeral services at his late residence. loth st. ne. on Saturday. July 19.

at a thence to Assemblea Christiana Church, where services will be held 10 a m. and friends invited. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Arrangements by the Wm. H.

Sardo Co. 1 8 BAl'M. MARY KATHLEEN. On Thursday. July 17.

1941. at Providence Hospital. MARY KATHLEEN BAUM, beloved wife of Thomas Baum Friends please call at V. Speare 1009 st. n.w.

Funeral from the Methodist Church in the ttle Cove. Sylvan. Pa on Saturday. Julv 19, at 2 p.m. Interment church cemetery 13 BOSWELL.

THEODORE GRIFFIN. On Wednesday July 1941. at Oakland. Md THEODORE GRIFFIN BOSWELL, son of Theodore and Virginia Veatch Boswell brother of John McClain Boswell. Funeral services at the Chambers funeral home, 517 11th st se, on Friday July 18, at 10 a.m Relatives and friends invited Interment Add-son Chapel.

Md. BERKLEY. WILLIAM. Suddenly, on Monday July 14. 1941.

at .5:30 am a' Freedmen's Hospital. WILLIAM BURKI FY of 1358 Guard st n.w.. son of the late Marcellus and Adeline Burkley. devoted brother of Mrs. Beitye Lou Williams of Waterloo.

Iowa, and devoted friend of Mrs Beatrice Green He aiso leaves other relatives and friends. Funeral Friday. July 18. at 12 noon from the Ernest Jarvis funeral church. 3 You st n.w.

Relatives and friends invited Interment Arlington National Cemetery CARMODY. JAMES S. On Thursday. Julv 17. 194 1.

at his residence Milmar son pi JAMES CARMODY. 1 beloved husband of the late Anna Carmody and father of Mrs. Francis J. Lucid. Joseph P.

Carmody of Washington. and Harry Carmody of Los Angeles, Calif. Remains resting at the funeral home of Frank Geier's Sons 8695 14th st. Services and interment at Batavia. NY 18 HAMBERS, AIT RED.

Suddenly on Sunday. July 13. 194 1 ALFRED CHAMBERS of 14ln Corcoran n.w husband of Chambers and son of Sally C'hamoers. He also leaves three sisters, four brothers, two daughters, one son and many other relatives and friends to mourn their Remains may be viewed the Henry Washington A. Son funeral home.

467 st. n.w after 3 m. Thurs- July 17 Funeral Friday. July 18 at 3 p.m from the above-named funeral home Rev. Fpottvood officiating Relatives and friends united Interment Wadesboro.

N. C. LEMENT. JAMES 1 W. On Tuesda' July 15.

1941. at Mount Alto Hospital. JAMES T. CLEMENT, beloved husband ol Lillian Withers Clement. lather cl James Clement.

Mrs. Eugenia Brooke and Mrs Mae Staten. He is also by five grandchildren William Brooke. Richard Brooke. Jean Brooke.

Dolores Clement and Stanley Staten. Remains resting at Hysong's funeral home. 1300 st. n.w.. where services will be held on Thursday.

July 17. at 3:30 Relatives and friends invited to attend. Interment Glenwood Cemetery. 17 CONLEY. ALICE E.

On Wednesday. July Ik. 1941, a' her residence. st se. ALICE CONLEY cnee Hickey), beloved wife of John Conley Funeral from 135 Tennessee avr.

ne on Saturday. Julv at 8:30 a Requiem mass a Holy Comforter Church at, 9 a m. Relatives and friends invited. GLARING. EDWARD F.

Suddenly, on Tuesday Julv J5. 194' at his home. Jeffejson Eas! Md EDWARD GLADING. beloved husband of Charlotte Giading Funeral from the above residence on Julv 18. at pm.

Interment at National Capitol Memorial Park, Laurel, Md. Relatives and friends invited. 17 GROSS. FRANCIS JAMES. Suddenly bn Tuesday.

July 15. 1941, at Casualty Hospital. FRANCIS JAMES GROSS beloved husband of Beatnce Gross and son cf Mary and Peter A. Gross He also is fjjvived by three sisters. Nellie Skinner.

Lffitan Tillman. Marie Goff, and one brother, Earl Gross. Remains may be seen sue: 4 Friday July 18. at his late i residence. Sumner rd se Services will be held Saturday.

July 19. 9 a at the above address. Interment fount Olivet Cemetery. HAZEN. MELVIN COLVIN.

Suddenly, pn Tuesday. July 15, 1911. MELVIN COLVIN HAZEN. Remains renting at Hysong's funeral home. 1390 st n.w.

until noon Tildav Julv 18 'hence to the Hamline Church 4501 16th st n.w.. where services will be held at 1 pm. Interment Manassas. Va. 17 HAZEN, MELVIN COLVIN Members of the Association of me Oldest Inhabitants are requested to attend the luneral of our la WJ- a a e.

MELVIN COLVIN HAZEN Services wtil be held ai Hamline M. Church. 4 59 1 16th st. n.w on Friday, July 18. 194 1 a' I pm Signed) THEODORE W.

NOYES. President. JOHN DICKMAN. Sr Secretary. HOLLAND CHARLES A.

On Tuesday. Julv 15. 194 1 at Providence Hospital. CHARLES A HOLLAND, beloved husband rf the late Rosa Irene Holland 'nee Daly) of 1148 Morse st. e.

Funeral from Timothy Hanlon fu- neial home. 64 1 st. ne on Friday. julv is. at 8:30 a Requiem mass at Holv Name Church at 9 a Interment Lincoln Cemetery.

Relatives and friends invited. IT HL'FF, ELIZABETH On Wednesday July 16. 1941, at the home of her son. i Ray L. Huff Loiton, Va ELIZABETH RUFF (nee Mulhatten).

aged beloved Wife of the late Frank Huff Funeral services at her late residence on Friday. July 18 at 6 p.m. Services conducted by Rev. Leonard Edmond'. Interment Alleghany Cemetery.

Pittsburgh Pa Saturday. July 19. at pm. and S.iti Francisco papers please copy LYDDANE. MARY ELIZABETH On Tuesday.

July 15. 194 1. a her residence. i Nicholson st. nw.

MARY' ELIZABE LYDDANE. beloved wile of Tuomas Lyddane Service' will be held at he: residence on Friday July ai 2 p.m. Internen1 Oak Hill Cnnr er: 17 McBROOM. LITTLE I On Wednesday. Juiv 16.

1911. Walter Reed Hospital. lllTLE L. McBROOM .3 I H.gnlana p. wile of he la Walter S.

Me Broom and mother oi Walter S. McBroom. r. Funerai services at the above on Friday. July 18.

at 3 pm. Interment Arlington National Cemetery. MONEY. C.ILFORI) MINOR On Wednesday. Julv 16.

1941. at his Quantico. GILFORD MINOR MONEY. 76 years. beloved husband of Bettie Elonev and lather of Clarence Money of Washington.

Funeral services Friday. July 18. at 1 em at the Hail funeral home Occoquan, i a Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Washing; on. D.

C. OVERSTREET. WILLIAM J. On Tuesday. Julv 15.

1941. Waiter Reed WILLIAM OVERSTREET of 1107, Diamond Philadelphia. beloved of Mrs. Nettie Duncan. Funeral and interment Philade.pfcra.

pa Arrangements bv W. Ernest Jarvis. PATTON. WILLIAM A. On Thursday July 17.

941 at his residence, 12 7 Maple me Takoma Patk Md WILLIAM A PATTON husband ot Nola Jose-: phine Patton He also is survived by a son. William Services a' his late residence on Friday. Julv 18, at pm Relative, and friend' Invited Interment Elderton, Pa. 18 PEABODl. hi I LL.

On Wednesday Juiv 9 ii. at her residence near Vienna. Va BESSIE LEE PEABODY, beloved wile of Edgar Stanley Peabody Remains resting at the funeral home of Monev A King Vienna. Va where services will be held Friday. July 18.

at 3 p.m. Interment Flint Hill Cemetery. Oakton. Va. ROBERTSON.

SARAII CHAMBERS On Thursday Juiv 1941. SARAH CHAM-, BERS ROBERT SON ol 3834 Garrison si. n.w widow of Floyd Robertson, mother1 of Mrs Mabel Davison Miss Irene Robertson and grandmother of Lonnelle Davison Services at the H. Hines Co. funeral home 2901 1 4th at.

nw on Saturday. July 19. at 11 am. Relatives and friends Invited. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.

18 ROBINSON. MAGGIE. Departed this hfe on Monday July 14. 194 1 at Gal- 1 linger Hospital. MAGGIE ROBINSON, lov- ing daughter of Edith Ward, devoted wile of Alphonso Robinson mother of Daniel.

I Melvin Edith and Doris Robinson She iso leaves to mourn their loss tw0 sisters nd other relatives and friend' Remains resting at the Barbour Bros funeral home st where funeral fprvices will be Friday. July 18. at 2 p.m. Interment Woodiawn Cemetery. SMALLWOOD.

HENRY JAMES Suddenly. on Tuesday. July 15. 1941, a' Gal-I linger Hospital. HENRY JAMES SMALL- WOOD aevoted son of Thomas and Lucy Smallwood Also surviving are three brothers.

two sisters, a sister-in-law and a host pf other relatives and friends. Funeral will be held lrom the Johnson Jenkins funeral home, 3953 Georgia on Friday. July is at 1 m. InterBlent Woodiawn Cemetery. SMITH.

HELEN T. On Monday. July 1941. at Garfield Hospital. HELEN T.

SMITH Manyette). beloved wile of Samuel F. Smith and mother of Samuel jr Joseph A. and James A. Smith.

Mrs. Louise Burdett, Mrs. Mary StoneBurner and Mrs. Beatrice Simms. Services at the Wm.

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July 18. at 8:15 am thence to Sacred Heart Church, where mass will be sung at 9 Relatives and friends invited. Interment Rock Creek Cemetery 17 FUNERAL PIRECTOB8. J. William Sons Co.

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Funeral Set Today For Henry Shirley, Virginia Official Leaders Pay Tribute To Highway Commission Member, Dead at 66 B.v the Associated Press. RICHMOND. Va July officialdom turned to St. Episcopal Church here today for funeral services for Henry G. Shirley, 66, Virginia highway commissioner, whose death yesterday evoked from all parts of the State praise for his personal character and for his work in building Virginia's present debt-free highway system.

The services were set for 3 p.m. with members of the commissioner's own engineering staff serving as active pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers included members of the commission and State officials. Burial was to be in Hollywood fcemetery here. Heart trouble, which had confined Mr.

Shirley to his home since the first of the year, caused his death. "I have never known a more honorable man nor a finer public official." said Senator Byrd, an expression typical of tributes from public officials and the press. The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot said that "one would have to search lar in the State's annals to find a comparable public career. and noted that after his appointment in 1922 by Gov. Trinkle he was reappointed by Govs.

Byrd. Pollard. Peery and Price for four-year terms "without any serious suggestion from any quarter that he be Mr. Shirley was a former road engineer of Baltimore County, and a former chief engineer of the Maryland State Roads Commission. As the supervising head of the system of Virginia roads, he received a salary of $12,500.

the highest in the State government. He was a founder and the first president of the Ameriean Association of State Highway Officials. Deaths SOBOTKA. CLEMENT On Wednesday July 1P4 1. ai George Washington Hos- Pit a 1.

CLEMENT J. SOBOTKA of Columbia id. n.w beloved husband of i Marie Elizabeth and father of 1 Ellen Virginia and Sobotka. I ai the S. H.

Hines Co. funeral home 14th at. n.w. on Fridav. July IS.

at pm. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery. THOMAS. MELVANIA. On Tuesday July 15 1 at the residence of her daughter, i Mrs Eliza Hawkins.

His st. s.w. MELVANIA HCMAs She to mourn five daughter' Ehza Isabel Louise Campbell. Ruth Thomas and Naomi 1 Alexander: three soil' John. and Lemuel Thomav two brothers.

Ernest Colbert and Scoti and also other relatives and friend survive Remains resting aT Eugene Fords funeral home. 1 Sou'h Capuol until Friday. July at 4 thence His st. w. Funerai Saturday.

July u-r ni from the Grace M. Church, Chapel Mri IS TWYMAV. JAMES. On Julv JAMES WYMAN. brother oil Barbara Colbfri.

nephew of Fhza Smith. Henrietta Coleman. Mattie Pryor and Robert Jackson. Remains resting at the Mahan Si Schey funeral home. J.

ave and st where services will be held Saturday. July IP. at p.m MHEELDON. MARY V. Suddeoly.

on Wednefeoai. July IH. 1.4*41. at her residence. 360 st.

sw. MARY WHEELDON Remains resting at 301 East Capitol st. Notice of funeral later. Arrangements by Robt. H.

Denny. IS In fflrmoriam BARNES. MARY C. 8acred to the mem- ory of our dear mother. MARY C.

BARNES, who departed this life two years ago today. July IT. 1939 Gone are the steps and smiles that wa loved so dear. Silent the voice we used to hear. Too far away for sight or speech But not too far for thoughts to reach.

Loving and kind in all her wavs. Upright to end of her da vs. Sincere and true in hear: and mind. Beautiful memori she has left behind And mar God keep her safely in His heavpnly res-. HER DEVOTED CHILDREN fill.LI AM.

CATHERINE A ribu of love to fhe memory of my darling mother. CATHERINE GILLIAM, who -eft me ten years ago today. July it, 1931. Today recalls a memorv Of a one laid to rest. And those who think of her today Are those who loved her LOVING DAUGHTER.

VIRGINIA. JONF.S. MARY, a tribute of love to the memory oi our dear sister and auntMARY JONES who passed away one year so today July it. 194o We have only your memory, dear Mary. To remember our w'hole lives through.

And you are one we can never forget For we are always thinking of you. LOVINGLY YOUR SISTERS. BROTHERS AND NIECE JONES. MARY. Sacred to the memory of our friend and co-worker.

MARY JONES, who left us one year ago today. July 17, 1940. There Is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore And bright in Heaven jeweled crown They shine forevermore. And ever near is the unseen. Their dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life, there are no dead OFFICERS OF QUEEN OF SHEBA CHAPTER.

NO. O. KLINE. HARRY In sad and loving memory of our dear brother. HARRY KLINE who departed this life four years ago today July 17.

1937. LOUISE. NELLIE. ELLA. LANGHORN.

PHILIP Sacred to the memory of oui devoted husband and father PHILIP LANGHORN. who left us five years ago today. July 17. Gone, but not forgotten. LAURA FLORENCE AND ELIZABETH LANGHORN.

LETCHER. ROSETTA A. In memory of our dear mother. ROSETTA A LETCHER, who passed away thirteen years ago today. July 17.

1928. A rock of strength to lean upon In time of joy or stress: An understanding, loyal soul, A heart of tenderness. A mirfd of wisdom, knowing how Justice and love to blend A teacher patient, loving, kind. Our mothfr and our friend. MARIE.

BERT. COURTS. FLOSS LYNCH. MARTHA P. Fond memories of our beloved mother.

MARTHA P. LYNCH, who passed away twenty-nine years ago roany. July 17. 1912. Gone are the steps we loved so dear, Silent the voice we used to hear Too far away for sight or speech Bui not too far for thoughts to reach DEVOTED CHII.DRFN ARTHUR.

NETTIE, VIRGIE. OLIVE AND FANNIE WARD. MARY M. In loving memory of our dear mother. MARY WARD, who passed away two years ago today, July 17.

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One night they tried to burn London down, and thus began what to my notion is the greatest newspaper story of our time. London was burning. London, the glorious and irreplaceable, would be I ashes tomorrow. London, the immortal, would be dead. From the roofs of high buildings in Fleet street we watched the ap, proaching doom with unbelieving i eyes.

The light of the pyre made a brilliant glow all across the eastern it was getting brighter. The dismal blackout was gone. From where we looked into the cavernous recesses of "The and over the elegant old wrecks of aristocratic Mayfair, along the Mysterious River and bevond the spire of Westminster and the towers of the House of Parliament, there didn't seem to be a single shadow left in London. The steeple of Bow Bells rose like a sword against the flame. The dome of St.

Paul's, ethereal and fragile as always, was marked with a million glittering facets. The streets, to use a phrase of Ed Angly's, were spattered with gold. Air Becomes Stifling. London, about to die, had buckled on its most gorgeous armor to do 1 the dying in. There had been no fire like this in Europe since 1660.

hen a smaller London was laid in there had been no such fire anywhere since the burning of Rome. Great cumulus formations of smoke billowed out of the raging east, rolled to the sky and flattened southward. They did not look so much like smoke as rivers of slowmoving white-hot slag Some of the fumes were working their way in our direction, although we couldn't see them save as misty blemishes on the bright metallic surface of the sky. But we were conscious presently of the deadly stagnation of the air. First it was merely hot and lacking in oxygen.

Then it was hotter and scented with oil and burning wood. Then it was acrid, choking, almost unbreathable. "I guess there must be half a million people down there in their fine, fireproof Anderson i said a man from Commercial Telegraph. "I wonder how much longer they're going to be able to get "How much longer do you think they're going to need asked a man from Exchange Telegraph. Targets Illuminated.

By this time there was plentiful evidence of the thoroughness of the raid. effort, it appeared, wasn't directed solely toward the demolition of London's most pop- ulous was spread out to embrace congested areas south of the river and the night club district in Leicester Square and the sacred pagodas of the rich and the mildewed in sainted West End. Queerly camouflaged by the thousand glittering reflections of the night, the planes hung high above the light, and dropped their bombs with ease and precision on perfectly illuminated targets. There seemed to be hundreds of were. The rhythmic groan and grumble of them seemed no farther away than the hoods of the flues above our heads.

We heard them bracketing Fleet street, and the Strand and the Embankment with sticks of Some of the crumps were so close that they seemed to have been aimed at us personally. We crouched in the dubious protection of the concrete parapet as the blasts went off below us and the rattle of tumbling glass continued when the echoes of the explosions had ceased Machine-Gun Shoppers, All night this went on and. with some hours of respite, almost as intensely the next day. On Monday. September 9.

daylight raiders came to strew crumps in St. James Park and in business thoroughfares and to machine-gun shoppers In the streets. And for just a moment that day Hitler appeared to have won his Mrs. Florence Oden's Funeral Rites Today Special Di5Patch to The Star. TRAVILAH.

July Funeral services for Mrs. Florence M. Oden, 50. wife of John William Oden, who died of a heart attack Monday, were to be held this afternoon in Grace Methodist Church, Gaithers- burg. The Rev.

William J. Elliott, I pastor, was to officiate, with burial in Forest Oak Cemetery. Gaithersburg. Mrs. Oden is survived by her husband, four daughters, Mrs.

Roy Everhart and Aleze. Anna and Pauline Oden, and two sons. Porter and William Oden; two sisters and two brothers. Dr. Kefauver to Retire FREDERICK.

July 17 Dr. Elmer Kefauver. 73. Frederick County health officer, is expected to retire soon under a 1941 act calling for mandatory retirement of State employes who have reached 70 Dr. Kefauver has been health officer for more than 16 years.

His present term would not expire until May 1, 1943. argument. The people of London moved that day like drugged unfortunates awaiting execution. The greatest city in the world might have crawled more or less fully out of the ashes of the East End. but was no victory.

Just about 6.000.000 men and women had been removed from life into a nirvana of mass hypnosis and shell shock. For many an hour they were just as dead, even though they could still move their hands and feet, as if some undertaker had laid them out for burial. That, although he had no way of telling it. was Hitler's moment. For the the since 1 the beginning of the war, he had flattened opposition.

He had smashed up England's sole remaining intangible thing that visiting lecturers used to bore you British spirit. But, in a fashion that almost leads one to accept the Englishman's view of the i divine mission of "the a miracle was tossed at just the right moment and Hitler's net accomplisnment in civilization's finest display of savagery had been the manufacture of a lot of ash heaps along the Thames. Revived From Trance. London shook itself suddenly and came out of the trance. People moved normally in the streets and quit looking up at the sky.

They no longer shivered when the sirens bleated. They put out incendiary bombs wfith their hats. They were concerned only with the crumps that fell near to them. Distant blasts were, in this philosophic division of worry, somebody else's bad luck. In a way it is difficult to convey i any conception of the battle of Britain in words.

Because this, which 1 turned out surprisingly to be one of the most important engagements of the war and probably the most astounding in the history of battles, cannot be considered as a single! dramatic event, with the customary unities of motivation, suspense and denouement. Rather it is a mosaic of many events, each with its own significance, each related intricately to the basic plot. And the basic plot, briefly outlined, was something like afraid of the big, bad We used to ride down to Dover now and then and watch the threea-dav air battles as the Luftwaffe tried to get over the Channel and 1 the Spitfires and the Hurricanes came out to chase them back We learned down there that the amazing audits of profit and loss issued daily by the A erred If at all on the side of conservatism. One day we stood by while the R. A.

F. knocked 186 Nazi planes out of1 the sky and proved to Hitler the unsuspected proposition that skillful management may give a few good planes and pilots the advantage over a lot of mediocre ones. Never again after that day did a Junkers 88 show' up over England Never through that terrible w'inter was there any doubt that England had regained superiority in her own air. Night bombing went on. ghastly lot of it.

but that had nothing to do with air superiority as was demonstrated by the British bombers who diligently carried out a similar program over Germany. Hitler made one psychological blunder in his plan to demolish London. So long as he was bombing the East End and blasting the poor and undernourished out of their wretched homes, there was some chance for division of opinion in the tow'n over the workings of a democracy. You could hear murmurs down there (if you weren't deaf or cen- sored i about an obvious deal between the ruling classes of England with powerful interests that did not have to be mentioned by name. 'Tis the rich wot tykes their' pleasure.

'Tis the poor as gets the blyme. (and the The refugees from the East End were asking, with the illogical persistence of the deeply hurt, why they had been picked for this visitation. Why were they sacrificed when there was fine shelter in the swank hotels, while the noble lords and ladies sat unharmed and unshaken on their velvet cushions in Mayfair. Bombs Boost Solidarity. One can see that there might easily have been quite a lot of re- suits from this line of argument and agitation.

But Hitler fixed that up. He strewed Mayfair generously with super-crumps and finished the East End's last basis for a yowl about partiality by blowing up a chunk of Buckingham Palace. The King had just finished his prayers in the chapel when a bomb hit it. The Nazis couldn't have done any better if they'd been deliberately trying to promote the solidarity of the British people. It was a little difficult living around London during the long months of the blitz.

Crumps would drop in streets and smash up water mains and ga.s mains And people would have to go for a long time without baths and without rooked food. Once a network of telephone lines went out. You telephone to anybody in, say, Claridge'i Hotel, even had you wanted to telephone to anybody in Claridges Hotel. Eating was something of a problem, too. Food continued to be plentiful enough In theory.

But restaurants weren't very durable. Literally, you never knew where your next meal was coming from. Hotels had a way of falling down about your ears. And you wandpred through London from door to door, feeling something like one of the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, for, no matter where you went you kept seeing the same faces and hearing the same voices that you'd seen and heard just before your midnight exodus from some other high-priced target. You got to know a lot of people that way.

As on shipboard, you met them easily and got to know them in- timaely in a few minutes. Whenever you got to the street before a time bomb went off or a wall col; lapsed, you were buoyed up by the thought of a reunion at the next i assembly point. Sometimes, of i course, you didn meet them all when you moved as usual to the best hotel within walking distance of your old home. The law- of averages always contrived to leave a percentage of them behind in the wreckage. You never talked about such people.

You never they were missing. Shelters Topple Down. The public shelters of London were unbelievably and disgracefully bad and probably still of brick topped with a thick layer of concrete. Concussion is generally enough force to knock the bricks tons of concrete lid come down. The mortality list In such cases is generally pretty complete.

Anderson shelters are nothing more than an arch of sheet Iron covered with dirt and their protection1 against a half-ton bomb is just about what you'd expect it to be The subways are deep and secure but too small to care for more than a fraction of 1 per cent of the populace, and most people after one night in them perfer to die out in the open. London's task in the blitz has been one not only of ex- 1 treme bravery but of adaptability and patience and endurance. One night in December the Nazis dropped 700 tons of TNT on London, and 100.000 fire bombs. But bv that time the new mode of life had be- come commonplace. You didn't relate your personal experiences un- less your house had disintegrated and vou had to report a change of address.

An unshaken people, standing in masses of wreckage and acres of desolation, lived for each day alone and were cheerily grateful when they were able to look out upon a new dawn. Maybe death was constantly a little nearer than it had been in 1938. Maybe living was a little more difficult. But the theme of existence was that of the paraphrase on King George's famous Christmas message. "And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year.

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