Coolness In Time Of Trial

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 1187, 1 October 1945, Page 4

Coolness In Time Of Trial

Speaking at the thirty-second anniversary of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association, Mr A. I. Cottrell paid a tribute to the calmness when under stress of the English civilians. During a theatre performance he had attended in London the alert was sounded, and within a few minutes the roar of a flying bomb could be heard. This noise drowned the voices of the actors and actresses, but not a line of their part did they miss, and not one of the audience left the theatre. The incident showed the character of Englishmen and women in their time of trial, said Mr Cottrell.