To Dunkirk

In 1940: Myth and Reality, Clive Ponting wrote:

A study of life in Britain in 1940 shows that the pattern inherited from the 1930s continued almost unchanged and that the government, in seeking to control and organize the country, was deeply conservative, instinctively repressive, suspicious about the willingness of the population to withstand the pressures of war and incompetent in relieving the suffering caused by bombing. ¹