THE AIR,BALKAN THEATRE: Try for a Knockout

IN THE AIR

Wearing tin hats and carrying gas masks, interviewers for Dr. George Gallup's British Institute of Public Opinion lately went among the bomb-battered British people asking: "In view of the indiscriminate bombing of this country, would you approve or disapprove if the R. A. F. adopted a similar policy . . .?" The long-suffering British people divided 46% for, 46% against, 8% undecided, on giving the German people their own Luftwaffe's frightful medicine. But that was several days ago. Something happened last week in Coventry which probably changed the score.

It was a...

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