London has had four catastrophes in nine centuries. The first was a fire in 1087, which took St. Paul's and most of the primitive city around it. The second and third came in two successive years the terrible plague of 1665 (70,000 dead) and the Great Fire of 1666, which left only one-fifth of the walled city standing. The fourth came last week. Perhaps not in physical damage but certainly in its imprint on the human mind, last week's was the worst. The first three were impersonal. This was the work of man.
Relentlessly last week and this the planes...
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