MADNESS TO DISPERSE
CIVIL A.R.P. FORCES
AN UNEXPECTED LULL
(Received September 22, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, told a Press conference that the air-raid menace was as threatening as ever and that it would be madness to disperse the civil defence forces because they had not yet been called into action. The present lull was giving greater opportunities for more intensive training. It was not only a war of arms, said Sir John, it was also a war of morale, demanding endless endurance and i patience. The civil defence preparations were based on the assumption of immediate and continued attacks, and the country was now experiencing a period which was not contemplated. Sir John Anderson admitted that the | toll of black-out accidents was alarming.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 8
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130MADNESS TO DISPERSE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 8
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