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Originally Posted by Bill Greenwell View Post
Oddly enough, my research has just found the first publication of Betjeman's other bomb poem (In Westminster Abbey) - in New Statesman on 23 September 1939, under the pseudonym Archibald Oldys!
Bill
At least in that one it's the enemy who are to be bombed, albeit on the plea of a selfish, snobbish 'lady'.
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