[siunevada]

There is a long-standing tradition at Harrods

Long standing? I wonder how long? I doubt this was in place when half the country was in uniform and the Nazis were raining random explosives on London.

Alarm at the sight of a uniform? I don't believe it. When did the Brits turn into such a mass of jellyfish? Or is it only the foreign customers that would be alarmed at the sight of a British uniform?

[andy58-in-nh]

I do wonder what Rudyard Kipling or Winston Churchill would have thought of such treatment. Well, I do know what Sir Winston once said, at a very different moment in history:

"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

[PAR35]

Long standing? I wonder how long?

Since the Muslims took over?