CREDIT FOR ENGLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 150, 22 December 1945, Page 7

CREDIT FOR ENGLAND

We Americans are smart people. We admit'it —and we can prove it, if necessary. We made colossal contributions to winning World War 11. But there are other smart people on earth. And they made colossal contributiont to victory, too. The outstanding spectacular weapons of World War II were radar and the atomic bomb. .

The English also were pioneers in jet propulsion. They invented and perfected the Bailey bridge. They designed and built the prefabricated portable harbour which made the invasion of France possible—and successful.

They built aeroplanes second to none in the world.

And Sir Alexander Fleming, of London, discovered penicillin, the wonder drug responsible for preserving the lives of thousands of Americans and others wounded in battle.

England's accomplishments in World War II are little short of miraculous.

It has frequently been said that we saved England. "We are not so sure that it was not England that saved us! —From the Cadillac. (Michigan) "Evening News."

Pointing out that .the series of thefts had appeared to be systematic, that the type of offence concerned was extraordinarily hard to detect, and that it threw suspicion on shop assistants, Mr. H. J. Thompson," S.M., imposed a sentence of 28 days' imprisonment upon Elizabeth Jane Scott, aged, 68, who pleaded guilty to eight charges of theft from shops. The first offence tocrk place in December of last year, and the last yesterday. Nothing ha<| previously been known against the ac« cused. Counsel for the accused' (Mr. G. C. Kent) described the case as a "sad and sorry business," and referred to the poor state of health of the accused and the tragic position in which she found herself as a result of the offences at this late stage of her lifel-