Synopsis

On the Quarter Deck of Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, four individuals from the South of England gathered. Katherine Davies, a department store buyer-manager, carried a volume on the life of Queen Mary, Consort of George V. John Hill, a retired colonial administrator, had with him a study of the Thuggee cult in India. Connaire Kensit, a polytechnic lecturer, brought a history of China from 1850. And John Pretty, a miller by trade, possessed a book detailing the Air War in Europe, 1939