"Blackout blues" was New York Timesman Raymond Daniell's phrase for Great Britain's state of mind last week. Members of the War Cabinet went on the stump to give the country a lift, but the first of their speeches to that endby First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchillgave it a laugh instead.
In industrial Manchester's Free Trade Hall, 2,500 citizens listened as the First Lord vaunted that Adolf Hitler had lost the first phase of the war by not launching crushing attacks. Suddenly from the audience came a single shoutfor Fascist Sir Oswald...
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