Foreign News: Confessions & Concoctions

Suppose the U. S. had had a war scare six weeks ago which necessitated the evacuation of cities, the setting up of anti-aircraft defenses near public buildings, the distribution of millions of gas masks to the urban population. Suppose that six weeks later, with the crisis passed, Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring confessed to Congress that the air-raid precautions had been so badly muddled that had war come, countless U. S. citizens would have needlessly been killed. Unquestionably the gravest sort of scandal would have followed.

In Britain, however, they do things differently....

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