I was in Maidenhead a few days ago and it was hard to believe that there was a war on and that Hitler, or Goebbels, was daily boasting that his U-boats were rapidly reducing us to starvation and that we luxury-lovders are on the verge of re-ion. The picturesque, narrow 'Street was crammed with cars people shopping. Maidenhead is in butchers' shops that any of equal size that I know and they were full of prime joints. How the rationing works out I don't know, but it would look as if there must be juggling with the account books. No doubt, owing to the petrol restrictions, many people shop in d who at other times further afield. But for a "of a pretty, animated, pro-country town, one could not imagined anything more satisses
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