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...passed 556 bills and 11,902 statutory rules and orders. It had been led by three Conservative Prime Ministers-Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk and the blitz) and at the peak of its moral resurgence (when for more than a year Britain stood single-handed against the might of German-dominated Europe...
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...TIME, May 28), Prime Minister Winston Churchill moved decisively. First he canceled the fortnight's holiday he had planned in the south of France. Then, twice in a single day, he drove formally to Buckingham Palace-at noon to resign, four hours later to accept King George VI's invitation to form a new government...
With the 3rd and the 36th, the Thunderbirds landed in southern France, cracked the brittle shell of German resistance and slogged north. The 45th spearheaded the VI Corps' drive toward the Belfort Gap. By mid-December of 1944, the 45th had been 18 months overseas, .and 365 of those days in combat...
...Britain's Lieut. Viscount Lascelles, nephew of King George VI...