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 responds to the Foreign Secretary's news that a Polish Resettlement Corps will be created to demobilize emigre Polish troops who do not wish to return to their home country:
The absorption into the British community of numbers of men whose total, even without their families, considerably exceeds that of all refugees now in this country will present social, cultural, and economic problems in plenty. But the Polish soldiers are fit men in the prime of life, able to contribute their quota of hard and useful work to the reconstruction of the country which is to become their home. The sooner the Poles can pass through the rather ambiguous but honorable status they will possess as members of the Resettlement Corps, and emerge trained to take their place as ordinary members of the community in its ordinary work, the better for all concerned ...
Meanwhile, a reader writes to Anne Cuthbert in this month's Housewife complaining about the behavior of her five-year-old daughter. During her father's three-year absence overseas on active service the girl has been raised in her paternal grandparents' house, and has emerged spoiled and defiant: “instead of being friendly, she is suddenly very rude to all of us (including me) and spends most of her time pouting in a corner. The family criticize her openly …” Cuthbert suggests putting the daughter “in a really nice children’s hostel” until the father returns and they are ready to move to a house of their own.
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