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Even blunter was defeated Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy, who called for "a progressive party in the tradition of Lincoln" and said: "We have got to get this party away from being an Anglo-Saxon Protestant white party." Echoed House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan: "Unfortunately, we have not been able to sell the people on the fact that our solutions are better for the people as a whole and in conformity with the framework of America's basic principles...
...that symbolized the survival of the British nation and the hymn that symbolized the endurance of the American Union-the suddenly mingled echoes of Agincourt and Antietam-served to remind the world of a kinship that goes deeper than shifting alliances and new patterns of power. It was an Anglo-Saxon moment that could not have been lost on Charles de Gaulle, among others, and its impact was lessened only by the absence of the President of the United States...
...author of the memorable satire, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, has bound up the parts of a novel in an orderly flow of narrative. But this is not the same as writing a novel...
...Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk said after a mob of students and agitators tore up the U.S. and British embassies in Phnompenh last spring: "The riots were inexcusable but comprehensible. They translated the legitimate exasperation of Cambodian youth before the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers." Of course the riots were comprehensible. Sihanouk had organized them...
...Nationalist government, composed mostly of Dutch-descended Boers, also fears that canned TV programs from the U.S. and Britain would further "anglicize" South Africa, 37% of whose white population is English-speaking. Beyond that, the Nationalists feel that Anglo-Saxon liberalism reflected in such programs could subtly undermine apartheid-although a good packager ought to be able to find some pretty safe fare. Still, Hertzog accuses South Africa's English-dominated business community, and specifically Diamond Tycoon Harry F. Oppenheimer, of plotting to bring in television, which could mean "the destruction of white South Africa...