Great Britain, like the rest of warring Europe, has had a strict taboo since war began on the broadcasting of weather news, because of its likely value to enemy airmen. But last week frosty Sir John Reith, press-dodging boss of Britain's censors, melted sufficiently to let BBC tell the world a bit about British weather.* Said the BBC newscaster to folks at home & abroad: "We have been having the coldest spell for 46 years. Actually, it began a fortnight before Christmas. . . . London one day had 25 degrees of frost. The...
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