[EternalVigilance]

Interesting wording: “This buttered no parsnips in Whitehall.”

Parsnips are horrid, with or without butter.

[Hebrews 11:6]

colorado tanker: ...suddenly cutting off aid meant some hard years for Britain.

EternalVigilance: Made acute by their turn to the bleak existence of socialism.

CS Lewis' biography frequently documents his keen appreciation, post-war, of food often mailed to him in Great Britain from appreciative Americans.