IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE! NOT HERE IN BRITAIN! - John R Schroeder - September 1981

John R Schroeder

I didn't think it would come to this," were the words of a diminutive Liverpool lady who stopped to chat with me in the shadow of a series of fire-gutted buildings - the former premises of local businesses. Two nights before Mrs. Margaret Thatcher had almost echoed her thoughts on a TV interview. The Prime Minister said: "Most of us did not think these kinds of things could happen in our country." Reaction from across the Atlantic Ocean was much the same. One knowledgeable Times reporter expressed it in these words: "Americans, however some try to conceal it, believe Britain has been, remains and will forever be the most civil society on earth. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library