WAR SPIRIT
PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE
NEEDED
(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 14, 10.20 a.m.)
RUGBY, May 13
The fact that today would normally be a Bank Holiday in Britain was generally forgotten by the public in the realisation that a great battle has begun and that patience and fortitude will be needed not only during the next nerve-straining weeks but also at the present moment, when detailed news of any kind is likely to be unobtainable, for military and' strategic reasons.
"The Times" advises: "No early success should be allowed to elate us at home and no early check should depress us any more than the armies in the field, who will take either as all in the day's work." It adds: "The campaign which has now opened, however it should develop and however widely the scope of operations should extend, is not going to be easily won or easily lost. Yet we know where we stand. We feel we can brace ourselves to the effort needed. We believe that though victory may be far off we have taken a step towards it in the last three days."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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188WAR SPIRIT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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