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...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...
...west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were clearly meant to understand that peace talk was going on, even if no Briton had seen Ribbentrop. The result was that they paid little attention to the British denial, felt that their first suspicions were confirmed...
...confident Commander in Chief's subordinate officers had yet to be named in full. The known appointments heart-warmed every Briton: cocky, confident General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery will leave his Eighth Army to serve as chief of "the British group of armies" on the second front; the R.A.F.'s taut, smart Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will be Eisenhower's top air deputy (as he was in the Mediterranean...
...industry is in a position to command the commercial respect of Hollywood. There are two reasons: 1) Britain has been turning out enough four-bell films so that U.S. movie fans do not automatically look the other way when a British label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as any man can with a 48,000-acre estate-Sutton Manor, in Hampshire-and another home in Surrey...