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...weeks ago London's famed Bow Street Police Court had its first day in living memory without a single charge booked. It may have been due to the accident that all the crooks were temporarily quarantined in bomb shelters. But there was unquestionably some connection between London's high wartime morale and London's unprecedented crimelessness...
Last week, tagging along like a sinister shadow, came corresponding reports that crime as well as bomb fire was booming in London. The crimes were integrally tied up with the war.* Looting, which involved 140 people in September, rose in October to 250 cases, was still climbing, outnumbering other crimes five...
Typical cases last week: Ralph Ellmore of Essex got six months for stealing a washing wringer from a bombed house; two soldiers, William Hart, 19, and James MacDonald, 20, got a total haul of a cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military...
...regarded as the very spirit of Britain, while Beaverbrook is spoken of with awe as something between a magician and an avalanche. . . . But there is another man, neither Liberal nor Tory, who . . . would demand the right to lead the nation now if Churchill were liquidated by a German bomb. . . . Mr. Ernest Bevin, former farmer's boy, self-educated boss of the Trade Union movement, and Minister of Labor is a strong man. . . . All three are forceful, tireless, fearless, arrogant, patriotic and stubborn." "And now," wrote Beaver's 19th Century Baxter, "as the guns won't stop...
...paid for by everybody who has. "The money cost, it can be admitted with a certain smugness, will be quite staggering . . . ten billions the year to care for approximately eight millions of unemployed." Grafton proposes a three-year plan of this kind, "embracing everything from the construction of bomb-proofs in the East Coast cities to a military CCC to turn the tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says, why can't we? Let no one worry if this looks as much like the end of democracy...