GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome

After they had brought in a verdict of guilty in Manchester Assizes last week, a horror-struck jury of townsfolk and farmers were rewarded in a manner almost unprecedented in the annals of British justice. Cried Presiding Justice Singleton: "I excuse you all from jury service for the rest of your lives because of the dreadful and gruesome details you have been forced to hear."

In these details Britain's Press has wallowed for weeks. In the dirty, smoky Manchester Assizes a special telephone switchboard was set up with private circuits constantly open to the great organs of...