Word: briton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This parody of the old tearjerker, Mother Machree, just about expresses one Briton's opinion of socialized medicine. Quoted by the Anglican Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt, it appeared last week in Sarum Messenger, a church publication. With increasing government interest in the individual's health "from sewerage to the new National Health Service," said the bishop, the government has become a sort of "foster mother" for the whole population. Though he likes some things about womb-to-tomb medical care at government expense, he said, it has lessened individual responsibility...
...sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised in the Transvaal, he had spent his life in the jungle. When he had completed his war chores (he became chief scout to Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, who has written a foreword for this book), he slipped back into the jungle for more of the kind of adventures that...
...young fighter asked a British officer: "What is a Communist?" The Briton decided that Dyak education had not progressed far enough for a precise understanding of that one. He answered: "Bad man." Replied the Dyak: "We want to help; we don't like...
Like his home, a Briton's holiday is sacred and for the most part steeped in gloom. Last week as Britain's August Bank Holiday came to an end under sodden skies, tens of thousands of vacationing Britons trooped back to grimy workaday lives at Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London with little to look back on but dreary days in shabby, seaside boarding houses. There were some Britons, however, whose vacation memories would glow brighter through the long winter months ahead. Among these were the 21,000 returning from Butlin's five "Luxury Holiday Camps" in England...
...Damned? Henry Scobie, the principal character in the story, was deputy police commissioner during wartime in a tiny, fetid port on Africa's west coast. He seemed like a dull, plodding Briton; he was also a serious Catholic. Something happened to his integrity: he betrayed his professional honor, his wife, his best friend, and finally his God. At the end he decided that the only way out was suicide...