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Inevitable Comparisons. There is bland acceptance of the fact that much that is now truly and distinctively British was originally borrowed from abroad-largely from France and the U.S. The most prized national characteristic, it was argued, is the universal belief among Britons that they possess a superb sense of humor. British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton...
...first victims was Edwin Morrell, 30, an exchange student from Salt Lake City who in June was kicked out of Moscow State University and accused of trying to "pry secrets" out of trade union officials. A month later three U.S. tourists and a Briton were bounced for distributing copies of USIA's Russian-language magazine Amerika-which...
Hero Julian Starke is a poet and a Briton and, consequently, unemployable -"too clever for an executive position, too vague for trade, and too feeble to shift cement bags." He has worked variously and unvigorously as a cabbage rooter, road mender, ice cream hawker, oil company minor-domo and smuggler. As the book opens, he lives in a derelict farmhouse in Gloucestershire, but he is a bohemian, not a beatnik. The distinction lies in the fact that he makes his bed once a week, writes coherent English, and laughs at himself now and then...
...club in the 1890s. Later another exchange was organized, and gradually Chinese gained admittance to both. After World War II the two exchanges were merged into the present 60-seat establishment, which is dominated by the 45 Chinese members and guided by Chairman Noel Croucher, a 69-year-old Briton who has been active in Hong Kong trading since 1913. Despite the fact that Hong Kong is a cutthroat market, Croucher contends that it is a safe place for money, if all the risks of stock speculation are taken into account. He has never heard of a Chinese broker...
...European Economic Cooperation, set up in Marshall Plan days), plus the U.S. and Canada. The details would be worked out by four "wise men": one North American (U.S. Ambassador to NATO W. Randolph Burgess); one Frenchman, to represent the Common Market Six (Bernard Clappier of the Finance Ministry); one Briton, to represent the Outer Seven (probably Foreign Office Economic Expert Sir Paul Gore-Booth) ; and one Greek, to represent other Europeans (Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece...