In the headline of my last post, I mentioned 1920, but on thinking about it, I think that it was more likely that Ma and Pa returned from France in 1921; not that that’s at all a critical date. And I mean, we ain’t gonna argue over a year or so, are we? The country to which they returned was vastly different from that they had left earlier, and one is sure that there was a certain air almost of schizophrenia about it. The unremitting carnage of the Great War had to a certain extent sucked the... Sign in to see full entry.