In the wintry streets of Britain's towns & villages, 2,000,000 men of the Home Guard paraded for the last time. Londoners lined three miles of streets to cheer the final march past. The "little man's" army, having waited four and a half years for an enemy who never came, finally "stood down" last week in a blaze of glory and gratitude. From the Home Guard's Colonel in Chief, King George VI, came a solemn tribute: "... A force . . . mighty in courage and determination." Said Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the man who...
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