Secret Surprises
This little tidbit, which comes on the very last page of the new NYRB, just about makes up for the truly cringe-inspiring article on blogs by Sarah Boxer (which includes an instruction for reading emoticons that actually begins, “Tilt your head to the left…”):
No one can be sure how widespread sabotage by munitions workers was, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence, including a story I can contribute myself. A German bomb fell through the roof of my wife’s grandmother’s house in the East End of London in 1943 and lodged, unexploded, in her bedroom wardrobe. When the bomb disposal unit opened it up, they found a note inside. “Don’t worry, English,” it said, “we’re with you. Polish workers.”
It’s from Richard J. Evans’s response to a letter by John Diebold.
