'It does my heart good — I, who have been so deeply distressed by the tone of the newspapers since my return from France — to hear the soldiers reading them with running comment. "If those newspaper blokes that go to the front would ask the fellows in the trenches straight, they'd hear a different story." Reading a picture paper account of Silvertown, where soldiers are depicted clearing away debris "with great energy, but showing clearly their eagerness to be at grips with the enemy" — chorus: "I don't think."'