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

[Fred Shapiro]

I should add to this query that I would welcome any pre-1955 documentation 
as well.

Fred Shapiro


On Tue, 30 May 2006, Fred Shapiro wrote:

>
> 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?