THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
JOYFUL REUNIONS IN BRITAIN STRAIN OF WAR REMOVED LONDON, Dec. 25. After six hard-working, weary years the people of Britain have settled down to a long Christmas holiday—for most persons, four or five days. Rain is still falling almost throughout Britain as the week-old storm slowly clears. Unusually mild temperatures have made this a grey Christmas, but the British people are keeping the festival as usual —indoors.
Increased service leave and the speed-up of demobilisation have made Christmas, 1945, essentially a family feast of joyful reunions.' Anxiety no longer haunts English homes. There are no sirens, no black-outs, no bombs or rockets, and no fear for sons overseas. . .
Turkey “ rustlers ” did a brisk business, while shepherds were forced to watch their flocks by night with guns to protect them from the “ black marketeers.”
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Evening Star, Issue 25676, 27 December 1945, Page 5
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136THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL Evening Star, Issue 25676, 27 December 1945, Page 5
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