Languishing behind barbed wire in Germany and Japan, many a Canadian had dreamed of an epic postwar party, and wondered if it would ever come true. Last week it did.
The Ontario branch of the Canadian Prisoners of War Relatives Association took over the entire convention floor of Toronto's bustling Royal York Hotel. Manager Jack Johnson battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a...
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