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Despite a dearth of cars and evening dress, and a 6:30 curtain, London had its splashiest opening since the blitz last week - a Charles Cochran revue starring Beatrice Lillie. If Big Top itself was pretty routine, the star was brilliant, the atmosphere gala, the audience happy. Looking young as ever, Lillie cut up all over the place, stopped the show with a take-off on a blues singer, never for a second betrayed the fact that her young son had recently been reported missing by the Navy...
...needed to keep the nation alive. Because farm hands had been conscripted into service or lured away by higher wages in war industries, the spring labor problem was put on the narrow shoulders of Britain's moppets. They responded as heroically as they had when they were blitz messengers; as industriously as when they were waste salvagers, as enthusiastically as when they were training themselves to become future airmen and nurses...
...great German blitz on England the conditions were geographically opposite. Britain was a concentrated target with a few industrial areas, all of which could be plastered with bombs. In Germany and Occupied Europe there were many more targets, and bombing must be dispersed. But this had its advantages for the attackers...
...responsible airman was ready to hop up and announce that the British blitz against Germany was going to knock the Nazis out of the war. It had run in full power for only a few days. It had shown no more than the first signs that its local but effective destruction could be broadened until it might cut the heart out of German production and transportation, and out of the morale of the people...
Equally gracious was Independent Reakes, onetime mayor of Wallasey, a local A.R.P. chief who had sweated himself helping poor families during the blitz. Said he: "It is a victory for Churchill!" But Independent Reakes, like Independent Brown of Rugby, had an addendum: "Our enemies will now know that Wallasey wants a vigorous prosecution of the war with a fight to the finish. The voters are dissatisfied with party politics...