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.
The Manchester Guardian features a letter complaining about the "dilatory and dangerous policy" of demobilisation being pursued by the government: “The sluggishness of the government in releasing men and women from the forces and from the munitions trades is a serious threat to our economic future … after the war of 1914-18 we demobilized about three million men in six months. We plan on this occasion to release slightly over three million men in twelve months … by the end of this year the United States plans to demobilize at a rate of a million a month, compared with our 350,000 per month.”
James Landsale Hodson writes in his diary: "A naval lieutenant rang up his wife in London from the Middle East. He began: 'Are you being faithful? I am." A remarkable opening gambit. She said afterwards: 'Sounds to me as if he had tried to be unfaithful and it hadn't come off.'"
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