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...occasion was the presentation by the unions which make up T. U. C. of 27 Y. M. C. A. mobile canteens. When the King, accompanied by his Queen, arrived in Buckingham Quadrangle to receive the canteens he was five minutes late for the ceremony. Barrel-chested, brindle-haired George Gibson boomed: "If you were a worker, you'd already have been fined." The King giggled...
Parliament convened last week, but with out the pomp of untroubled times. There was no royal coach, no scarlet-clad outriders for vanguard, no cheering crowds along St. James's Park. George VI and Queen Elizabeth drove from Buckingham to the Houses of Parliament in an automobile, quickly and almost unnoticed. There were no royal robes. The King wore the blue of an admiral, the Queen wore a royal purple street ensemble. The peers were in morning coats or uniforms and peeresses were not even present...
Britons saw him off with sincere regret. They respect Joe Kennedy because he has run his Embassy as smoothly as a Wall Street office, and because he is the kind of American who could never become Anglicized. The King and Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace. Government bigwigs streamed in & out of the Embassy office at No. 1 Grosvenor Square. The Windsor horse-mounted Home Guards trotted around to say goodby. The Evening News declared gratefully: "It is Mr. Kennedy single-handed who has strengthened Anglo-American friendship in London." The Times paid him the frankest...
...shelter problem was Admiral Sir Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. And significant of the increasing seriousness of the morale problem was a visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth last week to some of Sir Edward's choicest bombed areas, new and old. As common sufferers whose home (Buckingham Palace) had received a share of bombs, Their Majesties picked their way through debris, watched wrecking crews work, talked with A. R. P. wardens...
Please note the enclosed picture from TIME, Sept. 23, and explain how Hitler got to Buckingham Palace in time to help clear away the debris. Maybe he didn't miss the bus after...