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Show able to carry n-, t tha We are hopeful now that the invasion phase of the war is near-y near-y over, although we are not re-laxina re-laxina one inch in providing St such an attempt but the Sasti 2 which the RA.F- have Sto the Channel ports and the efficient way which the Navy have held their own, makes it seem very doubtful whether the Germans will be able to make a serious attempt before the weather wea-ther renders such a scheme a foolish gamble- . There is a school which says they wish they would invTiTF cause we are quite sur ,T them but I doqhiLlfc5yedSj-with doqhiLlfc5yedSj-with this view. Nothing fW lute y certain in tins world T while we would defeat his T vasion, it seems to me tha if"' much better that we shm.wV able to say that the mans who have landed n T' land have landed as'rUfc and that no German forVe, U set a foot on English !L TAh.fc from this point of view on ? not fight without seme "A (Continued on page ten) T in London for the last three weeks. I do not know to what extent they have let themselves go, but it would be difficult to exaggerate the strain which has been put on the London people-They people-They are, however, standing up to it very well, and while there is no question that the suffering entailed is considerable, the average av-erage Londoner is taking it as part of the day's work. Do not, however, be mislead by people who say London is "taking it and asking for more," that is very far from the case. People cannot be bombed night after night and like it, but although our business busi-ness here is in an East End area I have not heard a word of weakening weak-ening resolve from anyone of whatever class to which he may belong. Our old city has, However, some pretty nasty dents in it. You would Derhaps not recognize some of the'shops you used to be fond of, and some of the streets which you used to know in the city have now a pretty war-worn look. It is special grief that so many things of beauty which were fashioned centuries ago when men translated their piety by the works of the craftsman's fingers have been destroyed- It is ironical that these things, which during the rough passages we have had in English history among ourselves, have always been regarded as something sacred sac-red and outside the range of human hu-man passion, should finally be destroyed by these people who claim themselves of a higher civilization and as being the only race with the right to rule. However, those things must be, and as their forefathers destroyed destroy-ed many of the grandeurs of Rome without killing Roman civilization, so they will fail in trying to kill Anglo-Saxon civilization. civili-zation. The transfer of the Destroyers from the U- S. Navy was a wonderful won-derful piece of work, and I am sure it is a thing which America will never regret. They will be of immense use over here and especially in the Mediterranean where the Navy have a very big job or work to do. Elsie was tremendously interested inter-ested in your remarks about the British War Relief Society, and there is no question about it, the knitted things which are being made will be of the most tremendous tre-mendous value in England this winter. What happens is this: The working class family with two or three children goes off to spend the night in the Shelter. When they return in the morning morn-ing to their home, everything is destroyed. Our own Women's Voluntary Society and other organizations or-ganizations are doing noble work in looking after the immediate needs of these poor souls, but the ENGLISH UNITED IN WAR CRISIS, RESIDENT SAYS A friend tent a Bingham resident re-sident this letter from London, which pictures conditions in England- Because it gives such an intimate view of life there and the manner in which the English are reacting to their life and death struggle, it is presented as of possible interest inter-est to our readers. Coming the day after Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, an American holiday dedicated to prayer and feasting, feast-ing, this letter can be read with gratitude for our own blessings and a humble hope that some day the world can have a just and lasting peace. London, England 27th Sept., 1940 My dear Ted: Well, I have no doubt the correspondents cor-respondents of your papers have told you a great deal about what i we have been putting up with pressure is becoming so great that the demand is almost outrunning out-running the supply. I should like you to tell Nea and her friends that there is nothing, they can do which would make us more warmly grateful than the concentration con-centration on warm clothes for the children- Your Ambulance Services over here are doing wonderfully good work. I gave a lift the other day in the car to one American girl who did 48 hours at the wheel of an ambulance without a rest, and a good deal of time driving under the barrage. She is serving serv-ing with the unit in one of the Western Suburbs of London where they have had a particularly particu-larly hard pasting. My younger boy is down at Dover still and having a certain amount of excitement, but enjoying en-joying life. In his letter to us the other day he was saying he was glad to be on our side of the Channel instead of on the other-I other-I The R.A.F. have certainly handed hand-ed it out to the Invasion Ports with a lavish hand, and I am almost al-most tempted to believe that they have made invasion a very doubtful doubt-ful problem. The defeat of that of course, is only the beginning of the problem, but a very big beginning, and a set-back which the German High Command will find difficult to explain to their people. Carried on 1st October I was interrupted in this and it is only today that I have been they do not mean. The solid back bone of the country fully understands under-stands that America is taking great risks and that only moral conviction could have led them to adopt the policy which they have adopted now- With warmest regards from us all. Your old pal, Bill ENGLISH UNITED IN WAR CRISIS, RESIDENT SAYS (Continued from page four) ties these days, and it seems to me that our Army should carry on with its training in preparation prepara-tion for our own offensive with as little damage as possible. The Troops are in magnificent condition con-dition and are learning so many new ways of warfare, that when the time comes they will be a very formidable expeditionary force- We are all anxiously watching the Mediterranean for most of us feel that the next move will come there. From the reports 1 have from friends, the Army we have there is absolutely A-l, and the men in command are just; about the best we have- As. you are no doubt aware, big reinforcements rein-forcements have been built up in India, and my elder son is hopeful hope-ful that he will eventually join that Army. I do not think there is anything any-thing more I have to tell you. We are all patiently carrying on and the knitting together of Unpeople Un-people is steadily developing. There is no bond like the bond of common suffering-Do suffering-Do tell your American friends how great is the appreciation here of all that they are doing. Only those who have bothered to understand America realise what a tremendous movement it must have been to bring America Ameri-ca so openly into line with the aims of the British Empire as it is today. We know we have still a very long and hard road to travel, and it puts us on our toes to show ourselves worthy of being be-ing front line troops in this struggle strug-gle between civilization and barbarism- If sometimes perhaps our Press seem a little impatient I know you will understand that the strain is very great, and people peo-ple sometimes say things that |