Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle let up-for British tea. One man from each battle station went to the galleys, returned with steaming pots and cups. A.P.'s Grover noted: "It is hard for Americans to understand . . . but a Briton with a spot of tea under his belt is a better fighting...
...many feel that the Viceroy has done as well as any rational, cautious Briton might be expected to do in terrible, irrational times. Beyond doubt, he reflects the attitude of most of his colleagues and superiors in London. The great question is whether, in Indian policy, the times call for less rationality and more risk...
...Atlantic in 1940; the receivers of Bundles for Britain, thought Americans the most generous people in the world. Little U.S. influences were all over England: movies, the tune The White Cliffs of Dover, most popular song in England; even Chicago pinball machines in London's penny arcades. The Briton-in-the-street, from constantly gazing at the menus of Hollywood, believed Americans the most fabulous doers and makers of all time. He would always prefer his Britain, just as it was; but some day he would like to see America for himself...
When they dropped into the Gerrard's Cross police station to report their intentions, they ran into an eccentric Briton, Sergeant Donald Robbie, who whipped out a pistol and backed them against the wall. But, having disillusioned the Sergeant, they spent an agreeable two hours strolling the town. Everywhere they talked snatches of German and their Germanic English. In a workmen's pub the proprietor recognized one of them as a former vacuum-cleaner salesman named Harry Pringle who had sometimes called before the war. Said the proprietor to Harry Pringle: "What are you doing in that getup...
...threatened that if the debate grew too critical he would call for a vote of confidence-knowing full well that, whatever the critics felt about his Cabinet or certain of his policies, few of them would want any other Briton in Downing Street. He also suggested that recordings be made of his speech for radio broadcasting. Parliament, knowing the public power of the Churchill rhetoric, turned this canny suggestion down...