"What did they find, dear?" asked many a British wife last week, as her husband chomped his breakfast kidney and scrutinized the morning newspaper.
"A plenty . . . a great plenty . . ." answered Conservative husbands complacently. But husbands with Liberal and Labor views barked: "Nothing!"
That which was to be found was an allegedly stolen secret War Office document. To find it, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, had sent a swarm of operatives from Scotland Yard (TIME, May 23) to seize and search the imposing five-story building...
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