BRITISH PEOPLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20477, 11 February 1941, Page 5

BRITISH PEOPLE

FACING AIR RAIDS “WATERLOO SQUARES" . SPIRIT OF CIVILIANS HONOUR TO SERVICES . Elec.. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 10. Referring to the heroic endurance of the British people in the face of enemy air raids during the last few months, the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, said during his broadcast address last evening that it reminded him of the British squares at Waterloo. "They v are not squares of soldiers; they do not wear scarlet coats,” he said. “They are just ordinary English, Scottish and Welsh folk, men and women and children standing steadfastly together, but their spirit is the same, their glory is the same, and in the end their victory will be greater than the far-famed Waterloo. Unprecedented Ordeal “More honour to the civil defence services for the all-time emergency and the regular volunteer and professional who have helped our people through the formidable ordeal the like of which no civilised community has ever been called on to undergo. “If I mention only one of these services to-night, the police, it is because many tributes have been paid to the others, but the police have been in it everywhere all the time. As a working woman wrote to me in a letter, ‘What gentlemen they are!’ ”