This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
"Japan has surrendered," notes the Times soberly. All allied armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive action following the Japanese emperor's broadcast to his people early this morning (London time). Negotiations to determine what precisely happens next are being handled courtesy of the Swiss diplomatic mission in Washington.
Modern Woman has advice for the careful handling of returning husbands and fathers, c/o Dr. Harold Dearden:
Active service engenders a craving for change and excitement. It encourages habits of extravagance and a tendency to live, as it were, from day to day. Its whole atmosphere is no abnormal as to be calculated to unsettle the best type of fellow and make the routine and tedium of a civil environment seem a burden almost too wearisome to be born …
Mothers must take all reasonable precautions lest the child come to regard his father as an interloper, as someone who deprives him of the company of his mother, usurps his unique position in her eyes and, in addition, to make matters still worse, is encouraged by her to exercise authority over him ...
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