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Show LITTLE AFFECTED BY WAR London's Whitechapel Pursues the More or Less Even Tenor of Its Way. The wave of war has swept over London's Whitechapel. but has changed it very little, says Herman Sheffauer. Some of the physical signs and symbols are there the garish gar-ish posters, the bronze brown of khaki, and the darkened streets that make Ivondon's Ghetto still more (Jhetto-like. (Jhetto-like. Whitechapel is not only In the East, but of the East. Like Asia that "watched the legions thunder by. then plunged in thought again." the East end lifts up its eyes tcie troops of the king, then turns to trade again There is always war in Whitechapel the struggle to survive To one frefh from the nervous West end and the hushed suburbs, the stir aud-bus- tie of Whitechaped has a brava defiance. defi-ance. It is not only business as usual, but business as from time immemorial immemo-rial The Whitechapel tenacity has withstood crises more - terrible than this and among its own people. Refugees Refu-gees grow toug and indifferent, and Whitechaped is a retreat for the world's oldest and most numerous refugees. |