[PW] ? "Look the East End in the Face" (Quotation Query #632)

[Fred Shapiro]

I believe the following may be the earliest documented reference to a 
famous World War II quotation:

[<i>To a London policeman, 13 Sept. 1940:</i>] I'm glad we've been 
bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.
quoted in Betty Spencer Shew, <i>Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother</i> 
(1955)

Does anyone have access to the Shew book to verify the occurrence and 
wording of this quotation in that book?

Fred Shapiro


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