For five years Britons had coped with wartime hardships: blackout, rationing, bombs, robombs and plain, ordinary fatigue. But above all they were fed up with restrictionsof which the long-continued blackout was almost the symbol. The blackout had been partially lifted.
The Bitter 'Arf. Official fanfare seemed to have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He...
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