THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 3, 1940.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE REAL WAR
There is one attribute of the British people which Hitler has judged with ap- proximate accuracy: We are not a naturally belli- gerent people. We have enjoyed so great a mea- sure of freedom in our way of thinking and liv- ing that we are apt to take a benevolent view of the outside world with which we have wished to remain in peace and friendship.
It may be difficult even in wartime to rid our- selves entirely of this ten- dency. We are well aware that every Briton worth | the name detests Nazism as a loathsome tyrannous conception. We are re- solved to fight it until either the Nazis or we are extinguished. There is no middle course:
And yet when invasion is threatened and does not immediately take place we are inclined as a people- and this excludes the Fighting Forces to get off our toes and relax: to allow secondary matters to take possession of our thoughts.
It may be typical of our race, but it is also danger- ous. The Prime Minister has found it necessary to repeat to the nation that invasion, which seemed so
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A corner of Gibraltar, our Mediterranean stronghold.
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Men of the Brition Army ready to man a big gun at Gibraltar. One of the 3.7 anti-kircraft guns on güdry. -
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H.M.S. "Ramillles", one of the battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet, in dock at Gibraltar..
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