SPIRIT OF BRITAIN
HER MAGINOT LINE
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, January 19
General Sir Walter Kirke. in a speech, said Britain's Maginot Line was not an affair of dug-outs, wire, arid concrete. It was formed by the fighting aircraft, searchlights, guns, and balloons of tho coftst and air defence, of Britain, manned mostly by volunteers, the Territorial Army, and the auxiliary air force. He believed that if trial should come British people would face it with the cheerful and uncomplaining bulldog courage they had displayed in the past.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 12
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