Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slithering through the upland jungles afoot, backed up by slit-eyed little Siamese soldiers from feckless Thailand, the invaders swarmed through the mountain passes on the Thailand-Burma border. They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban. Every Briton, every Colonial in the force that backed up before his advance knew what the enemy was after...
Their easy, effortless discipline startled watching British officers, whose Army still does things the hard way. A U.S. colonel ordered his men to fall in and march with : "We're moving, gentlemen," and "All right, boys, let's go." When the troops tramped smoothly off, a Briton said: "There's something we must learn from...
Some people in Washington-still suffering from the national inferiority complex-which holds that an American is always out-traded by a Briton in a conference-feared that the Prime Minister had sold the President a bill of goods. But no man had grounds to say so unless he knew what the two had decided. They had got along together like a house afire, had sat up together, alone, talking away into the small hours. Presumably these private conferences were over the great question of how to win the war. They had parted, according to the White House, in "complete...
...Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic authority, published the All-Time Ring Record Book...
...symbol of British aristocracy, of the Tories, of feudal England, although he is probably more representative of contemporary England than U.S. Ambassador John Winant is representative of contemporary U.S. life. Many a U.S. citizen fears the influence of British aristocracy, of British stuffiness in U.S. life, as many a Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp had thrown a turnip at Ambassador Winant, the U.S. would have hit the international ceiling. Last week Britons were politely, politicly...