76] — Two months after Britain’s retreat from the Mandate, Inspector General Nicol Gray stood one last time before his Palestine policemen adorned in their full-dress uniforms, hundreds of them assembled in perfectly aligned rows, eyes forward. Their steely upright postures betrayed a sense of unmitigated pride as George VI, clad in full military dress, surveyed them. There, at Buckingham Palace, they took their final stand down in a ceremony loaded with imperial ritual.
