The fashionable West End section of London resounded to the chanting of traditional Jewish prayers today when an improvised V-E day service was held by American Jewish soldiers and recently released Polish Jewish war prisoners. The two groups met by chance outside the Red Cross Rainbow Club in Picesdily and decided to mark the event by prayers. Passing British Jewish soldiers joined them.
In the heavilly Jewish populated East End section Jewish flags were interspersed with Union Jacks today as the King and Queen toured the much-bombed section in their first public appearance of V-E day. Palestinian Jewish soldiers and other Jewish nembers of the armed forces were among the thousands of people who lined the streets to watch the royal family pass by.
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