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...Another Briton felt that nationalization entitled her to ask a favor of the engineer on the 6:20 from Hastings to Ashford. "Would you be so good as to hoot as you go over the iron bridge just out of Rye station," she wrote,"to get my husband up for work? We cannot buy an alarm clock...
...Last week Food Minister John Strachey announced that each Briton could buy an extra 10? worth of meat for Christmas week, over his normal weekly ration of 20? worth. Other Christmas extras: 1½ lbs. of sugar, 4 oz. of candy (normal ration, 4 oz. weekly...
...many a Briton, Prime Minister Mackenzie King seemed less a personality than a symbol of a generous Canada that had time & again stood beside the mother country. Said the London Times when he received the Order of Merit: "He has been loyal to Canada, loyal to the Commonwealth, and loyal also to a larger vision of the brotherhood of humanity...
...victory of order, out of which freedom issues, had, in turn, its source in marriage, whether in Westminster Abbey or in a country church. Thus, what would otherwise have been merely a flash of gems, a blare of horns and a hash of gossip took on a meaning for Briton and alien by a fascinating interplay of dignity and earthiness, of humor, pomp and prayer...
...fully in accord with Mr. Yates's statement that: "The average Briton . . . would much prefer to starve quietly than see our loathsome, contemptible politicians conniving with you to tie us up for generations with the dollar loans ..." I only wish there were more average Britons...