The Times played down the damage in a leading article:
“They have killed a boy, an old lady, a middle-aged shoemaker, & a soldier’s widow, & they have injured a baby. They have also demolished 3 or 4 house, & smashed a thousand windows. These are paltry achievements …”
In other words nobody who really mattered was killed.
How very different from our own dear days, when, instead of saying ‘Is that the worst you can do?’ we go into melt down, searching even babies & old ladies – not to mention shoemakers! - for the wmd they might have hidden somewhere
Though, to be fair, The Times did go on to say that ‘it will be unwise to meet such an episode with jeers & nothing more.’
Well we were at war
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