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Next day Sir John complained to White's committee, which apologized to Bevan. Then the club announced Fox-Strangways' resignation. Said one well-born Briton: "I'm afraid they're awfully upset about it at White's. I mean to say, you should never kick a guest. Might have kicked Slessor for taking the fellow there, though-damned odd thing...
Like all British observers of the U.S. Army, this observer was both envious and appalled at the bulk and variety of U.S. equipment and its "amenities." One Briton in Korea says that he saw tanks held up for hours by beer and refrigerator trucks. Another, who had been with U.S. troops landing in Southern France, said last week: "In France, I thought someone was just having his little joke when they brought the office wastebaskets ashore from the ship. But damned if they didn't do the same thing in Korea...
...Brussels, free-spending Briton George Dawson, who was wanted by U.S. authorities in Germany on charges of shady dealings in war surplus, slugged it out with London Daily Express Reporter Bernard West when he tried to interview him. Later, Express officials ordered West to drop assault charges against Dawson, explained coolly: "Express staff reporters do not fight with hoodlums...
...novels were fewer, and the better ones came from abroad. Best of the lot, and the best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...
...become reading hits as well as stage successes. T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party was a sophisticated, impeccably literate lesson in the need for understanding and faith in human relationships. Its sale of more than 50,000 copies put it in the bestseller class. And another Briton, Christopher Fry, showed in The Lady's Not for Burning that the English language can still sing and shine and that poetry can speak the common tongue with humor as well as compassion...