Last week the Battle of Britain was three months old. Prime Minister Churchill dug up an old gag to keep British hearts high: "It's a great life if you don't weaken." Out of the continued bombings —London had 300 alarms, and the Midlands got it hard—came two items which said a lot about whether or not Britons were weakening:
>Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German...