https://youtu.be/CibECZZB9YU Among the people many, in their desire to emerge from an almost unbearable tension, went so far as to say out loud that they wished the enemy would risk the attack. Foremost among them, Mr. Churchill found the waiting hard to bear. I can still see him at Chequers, one August day, raising his fists towards the sky as he cried, “So they won’t come!” “Are you in such a hurry,” I said to him, “to see your towns smashed to bits?” “You see,” he replied, “the bombing of Oxford, Coventry, Canterbury, will cause such a wave of indignation in the United States that they’ll...