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    Keeping the faith

    May 11, 2022 2 minutes

    BACK in the dread days of September 1939, COUNTRY LIFE’S editorial team made a conscious decision not to report slavishly every development of the war everyone had prayed wouldn’t happen, but to provide the services of comfort and distraction. It would remind readers of the

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