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 Times reports that the attempt by Mr. Griffith Lloyd Price to use the 1944 Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act to regain his pre-war civil service job in the Malayan Government has failed, because the Act has been deemed to apply only to the United Kingdom. Mr. Lloyd Price was sent by the Public Works department of the government of the Straits Settlement to Singapore as a temporary electrical engineer in 1941. when the colony was captured by the Japanese in February 1942 he escaped and made his way to Australia, after which he was commissioned in the Indian Army. After the war he applied to the Malayan government for his old job back but was refused; a special committee of the Treasury that was set up to review the case initially concluded that he ought to be reinstated with compensation, but that decision has now been finally overruled.
The paper also notes (buried in a small column on page 4) that the International Olympic Committee has accepted an invitation from the Lord Mayor of London to hold the first postwar games in the British capital in 1948.
Page 4? I'll evidently have to drink a lot more coffee before I can say anything commentariat-worth, but that _is_ funny.
Posted by: Erik Lund | Monday, 15 February 2010 at 02:51 PM