2 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 4

The American cemetery at Madingley, near Cambridge (where King Edward

VII lived during the brief period in which he figured as an undergraduate), is an impressive sight, with its immense row , of white crosses, each with its bare name, date and rank. The name. some Anglo-Saxon, some Italian, some Polish, some Scandinavian, bear witness to the unique catholicity of the American nation. Crosses and names are growing all too fast though the war is over, for aeroplane accidents—it is mainly, though not wholly, an Air Force cemetery—add steadily to the number. A great American flag floats or droops (according to wind or windlessness) at half-ma -I over a green slope that will long, perhaps for ever, be a place of sacred pilgrimage for Americans visiting England.