For embattled Britain the time had come to tell the world its tale of total mobilization. Britain told it last week in a Government White Paper, wrapping in dispassionate statistics the whole story of what war had done to a people, what the people had done in the war.
Civil servants headed by tall, gaunt Sir Edward Bridges (son of the late Poet Laureate) had compiled the data which His Majesty's Stationery Office issued under the crushing title: "Statistics Relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom." The London Observer had a better description: "Here at length is the...
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