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...People's War. On London streets dignified Britons forgot their dignity. Sir Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, was standing in a bus queue when he heard the roar, felt the silence...
Unashamedly he ran, threw himself in a doorway. The queue was wiped...
Then General de Gaulle came to Isigny and took a queue away from the butcher shop that had just reopened. He got out of his jeep at the edge of town and walked in, and the crowd followed him, cheering. But again the welcome had in it a note of restraint, as if the people were ready to like this new leader and hoped that he would give them cause to do so. They listened in respectful silence as De Gaulle (eld them that he had come to Isigny be cause Isigny had suffered most in a battle that...
...Work. At home, our day began at 7 a.m. Before breakfast we had to fetch the milk for the small children. For breakfast we always had potatoes and bread. Butter was very scarce. Then the boys and girls went to school and the women had to go out and queue up for fish, if they could find some fish, and other foods. This took several hours, then they went home to make dinner, mostly potatoes. There are a hundred ways to fix potatoes. We had meat, usually half veal and half horse, once every four months...
Manhattan importers were six months, behind with their orders. Porcelain fanciers, in an invisible but impatient queue, waited last week for their ceramic birds, which they bought as fast as they could be imported from Britain. The superbly color-glazed, life-sized birds, perched in natural flower and branch settings, cost from $250 to $475 a pair...