Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week blue-eyed, brown-haired Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor comes of age. Briton No. SWGC 55-1 to the national registration office. "Betts" to her family, Princess Elizabeth to the world, on her 18th birthday she becomes Heiress Presumptive to the British throne. Should anything happen to her serious, doting father, King George VI, this mannequin-tall (5 ft. 6½ in.), pretty but not yet handsome girl will become Queen. Her great-great-grandmother, Victoria, reached that estate when she was 27 days past...
...Well," mused the Briton, "if you treated it as you treat everything else, you'd either drink it or kiss it." ¶ At 4 a.m. a Downing Street flunky rapped on Churchill's door, said that there was an urgent call for him. Churchill grumbled, finally went to the telephone and heard a familiar voice: "Winston, this is Joe. I am at Calais. You can come over now, it's safe...
...small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...
...Britons girded for the climactic year of Europe's war, and for the peace, is King George VI. His highest duty is to be one of Britain's 46,000,000. In a fashion which no other people can wholly understand, and which no Briton needs to understand, he is Britain, or he is nothing...
Throughout the war, George VI's daily routine has been rigorous, unsensational, inelegant. Like every other Briton who can manage it, he has his cup of morning tea, a black Indian blend in bed at about 8 o'clock. When he travels he lives aboard his ten-car train to avoid the fuss and bother of staying with people. By 9:30 he has bathed, dressed, breakfasted and glanced at the morning papers. All the London dailies go to the Palace. When he is in London he then meets one of his two secretaries in his office...