How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

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Referring to the Baedeker Blitz: a series of German air raids on English cities of historic and architectural interest.

Entry in Who's Who (1929)

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