FOR YEARS VISITORS TO LONDON and not a few Londoners have been asking policemen on the Horse Guards Parade, behind the Admiralty, " What's the place like a fort? " The reply is, " The Citadel " the official name for it. The place is the most closely guarded in London. It is fitted as an " underground Whitehall," complete with working and sleeping quarters for Ministers and civil servants. Secret records are also kept there. Now the question is, " Shall it be pulled down after the war or shall it be kept as a reminder of the grim days of 1940?"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 304, 23 December 1944, Page 8
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97FOR YEARS VISITORS TO LONDON and not a few Londoners have been asking policemen on the Horse Guards Parade, behind the Admiralty, " What's the place like a fort? " The reply is, " The Citadel " the official name for it. The place is the most closely guarded in London. It is fitted as an " underground Whitehall," complete with working and sleeping quarters for Ministers and civil servants. Secret records are also kept there. Now the question is, " Shall it be pulled down after the war or shall it be kept as a reminder of the grim days of 1940?" Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 304, 23 December 1944, Page 8
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