Defenders of London
Any temptation to pass adverse comment on the apparent inoffensiveness of that formidably offensive agent the ROyal Air Force in France may perhaps be tempered by the reflec- tion that the R.A.F. is with conspicuous success defending Lcndon from behind the Maginot Line. On Tuesday the R.A.F. made reconnaissance flights over Hamburg, Magde- burg and Berlin—with the distressing result that at Hamburg the radio-station was suddenly silenced when it ought to have been broadcasting Herr von Ribbentrop's speech. No bombs were dropped, but they obviously might have been, as the populations of the cities concerned will not fail to realise. So convincing a demonstration of the vulnerability of great German cities provides the best of reasons why Herr Hitler should withhold the order to bomb civilians in this country and France. The Fiihrer, in fact, whose aeroplanes have not so far penetrated further into Britain than the Forth Bridge, is not the only master of the technique of bloodless warfare. He may, no doubt, decide on methods of frightful- ness. If so the R.A.F. will find a way, without emulating them, to make itself fully felt.
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