Whether it is the Minister of Home Security or the
Lon Passenger Transport Board that is responsible for the decision to run the Tube trains under the river (except on one route) d alerts I do not know, but I hope very earnestly the decision will reviewed. During the early blitzes, when bombs of considera penetrating power were used, the decision to shut the flood-g during the alerts was intelligible. But it appears to be commo agreed that flying bombs have relatively small penetrative effect powerful lateral blast. If that is so, the case for stopping the Tu is not clear. The result, quite apart from the inconvenience, a the missing of connexions at main-line stations, is to turn hunch of people out into the street sooner than need be while there still danger overhead. If the risk in running the Tubes as u is as little as it would seem to be, I should hope they might if all be run. The policy could always be changed again if chan circumstances required it.
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