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However, a ray of hope opened for her at the Savoy--not much, a prospect

The Savoy was crowded Men in uniforhters, and aily dressed

and painted women, filled the lobby or made their way slowly up and

down the staircase It was all so utterly different froht, so full of life These well-fed people they see back hoht it?

Long months afterward Sara Lee was to learn that the Savoy was not

London She was to learn other things--that Ah

a free press, of war conditions than did England And she was to

learn what never ceased to surprise her--the sporting instinct of the

British which an "Business as usual" Business

and pleasure--but only on the surface Underneath was a dogged and

obstinate determination to make up as soon as possible for the

humiliation of the early days of the war

Those were the transition days in England The people were slowly

awaking to theto the under political do to

coh-explosive