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Early in June we leTT The SixTh EleeT and sTeamed norTh- ward along The coasT oT Europe. DesTinaTion - England: where we were To represenT The UniTed STaTes Navy in The CoronaTion Naval Review oT Queen ElizabeTh Il. Our TirsT slap was PorTland, where we puT The Tinishing Touches on our Tull dress regalia. WeymouTh was our liberTy porT, a very pleasanlr liTTle English seaside resorT, where w.e Tound we could speak The naTive Tongue, even if we did sTill have Trouble wiTh Their money. BuT London was The big aTTrac- Tion. We expecTed London To be big, and iT was: we expecTed iT To be inTeresTing and iT was. IT was all we had heard abouT and more, wiTh iTs well organized Tube sysTem, double decker buses, quainT old Taxis, and colorTul miniaTure homes. We had very liTTle Time in London, buT managed To visiT all The TradiTional places: The Tower oT London, ParliamenT, Picadilly Circus, TraTalgar Square . . , We waTched The changing oT The guard aT Buckingham Pal- ace, saw Grosvenor Square, wiTh iTs sTaTue of PresidenT Roosevelt and of course, WesTminsTer Abbey, where The new Queen had been crowned a Tew days beTore our ar- rival. We were pleasanTly surprised To Tind ThaT London was noT really The cold, ausTere place we had always imagined iT To be. buT was, raTher, a warm, Triendly, alive, and ex- ciTing ciTy To visiT. Piccadilly Circus . no elephanTs S Queen's guard-Buckingham BELOW: WesTminsTer . . . wiTh CoronaTion addenda BOTTOM: Her Maiesfy passes: The ciTy cheers