'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen and handed it round among immediate neighbours (about a dozen usually had some kind of a look at it), and noted down afterwards all the items in the paper that had attracted any comments of any kind. During the whole of this period there was a total of not more than four remarks about the war news at all, and these were of the briefest. Here is a typical set of reactions to looking at the paper - the particular day being February 26th, the day when a Cripps speech was headlined all over the front page: "What's your birthday, Peg?" "June. First half of June. What's it say?" "'No great excitements, but a pleasant, easy-going sort of day.'"...'