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

[Kevin O'Kelly]

Fred:
   
  I don't have access to a copy of the Shew biography, but when I'm home between 5 and 6 this evening  I will check my copy of AJP Taylor's England 1914-1945. I am 99% sure that quote is in the book and I will see what the footnote says.
   
  Kevin

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
  
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:
>
> [To a London policeman, 13 Sept. 1940:] 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, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
> (1955)
>
> Does anyone have access to the Shew book to verify the occurrence and
> wording of this quotation in that book?
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