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The Protection of Your Home Against Air Raids

British Government, "The Protection of Your Home Against Air Raids", 1938. âIn the next war, with its overwhelming air raids, its gases blotting out life over square miles, its bacilli, possibly its rays, munitions works and the services of the rear will be special objects of attack.â - Irwin Will, The Next War: An Appeal to Common Sense, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1921, p77 (best-seller first published by Dutton in April 1921, 23rd printing, October 1921). âThe chemical Warfare Research Department [prior to 1927] had been making experiments to determine how long persons could remain under certain conditions in a âgas-proofâ room ... a broadcast in February [1927] by Professor Noel Baker, on âForeign Affairs and How They Affect Usâ ... claimed, âall gas experts are agreed that it would be impossible to devise means to protect the civil population from this form of attackâ. The Chemical Warfare Research Department emphatically disputed the accuracy both of the details of the picture and of this general statement. They considered it unfortunate that statements of this nature should have been broadcast to the public, particularly after the Cabinetâs decision that the time was not ripe fo

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