World War: Mandate to Bomb?

Until a few minutes before nominations closed last week for a by-election for Parliament in King's Norton, Birmingham, the election looked as if it would be just another local pushover for the Government candidates. But at the last moment an independent candidate rushed in with his nomination papers, signed by women only: Dr. Alfred William Lumsden Smith, who called himself an Independent Reprisal Candidate. His one-plank platform: Bomb Berlin.

All week long the Luftwaffe did some dark electioneering for Candidate Smith —by striking, night after shrieking night, at Britain's port towns. Candidate Smith's cause did not suffer by the fact...

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