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...They may not understand each other, may not even like each other much, but somehow they see each other all the time. That kind of attachment has grown up between the Jacksons, a shy, stiff couple who live with their adolescent daughter in the built-up London suburb of Ruislip, and their Canadian-born neighbors, the sunny, boisterous, intrusive Krogers. The families pop into each other's houses, exchange presents, share holidays. So long as they accept each other at face value, the relationship works. But when they stop to examine what they really know about each other, they uneasily...
Silly Fool. The Cohens and their Russian boss took their punishment with a certain professional pride. Master Spy Lonsdale even made an effort to shoulder all the guilt himself, insisting that the espionage equipment in the Ruislip house was his and had been put there without the Cohens' knowledge. The Cohens, though protesting their innocence, refused to submit to crossexamination...
...next two defendants had lived in the humdrum London suburb of Ruislip as Peter and Helen Kroger. Their modest home was littered with the latest espionage devices, ranging from microdot readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens Morris and Lona Cohen, with a long history of Communist ties. They had dealt with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the executed atom spies, as well as with Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, now in Atlanta federal penitentiary serving a 30-year term for espionage. The Cohens were each sentenced to 20 years...
From Lonsdale the trail led to a bungalow in suburban Ruislip, just outside London. There, middle-aged Peter and Helen Kroger had set up a modest book business in the front room. Hospitable and friendly, the Krogers had long been neighborhood favorites. Neighbor George Hammond recalled that Mrs. Kroger had dropped around only a couple of hours before her arrest with some fresh bones...
...more important, however, is the spontaneous good will of many on both sides. Ruislip headquarters last week proudly reported that the number of Britons who have invited U.S. troops to share their family Christmas dinners already far outnumbers the troops available. G.I.s at Mildenhall antiaircraft base are busily raising $3,000 to give a party of their own for local British kids, during which Santa Claus will arrive by helicopter...