The heart and mind of Britain may have been across the laden English Channel last week, but Britons did not show it. King and commoners, noble lords, grimy street sweeps went about their usual jobs. To an alien eye the most remarkable thing about Britain in invasion week was its British normality.
On the Thames, there was sculling as usual. At the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show in Westminster, a new iris called "Radiant" aroused much interest in its light apricot and crimson-bronze shadings. London's hordes of strangers in uniform thinned out. Londoners felt...
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