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Crowds Listening to a Brass Band in Trafalgar Square, 1940. London during the Second World War. 'An island at bay - ready, yet hardly prepared. But an island in the midst of war, knowing a kind of peace. Peace that comes with knowing that one is doing the right thing, come what may. And so they waited patiently for the worst...There was no escape, nowhere to run to, but even had there been, few would have run there. Now we know that he [Hitler] was never destined to come. But they didn't know it then. Yet perhaps of the all the peoples of Europe that summer, they were the most calm, probably because they had Adolf Hitler not only weighed up, but also fitted into his proper perspective'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 2); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.