“The civil population of Britain has already lost no fewer than 30,000 lives,” said Viscount Samuel, speaking in the House of Lords. “This is an exhibition of totalitarian war, as it is termed by our enemies, but others will name it Wanton murder, and so it will be named by the moral sense of mankind and by history. Yet our people do not flinch. London has suffered terribly. In the neighbouring capital of Paris the people sleep quietly at night. But there is no man or woman who would not rather be a citizen of London bombed and free thlili a citizen of Paris safe but enslaved.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 4
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