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...months and years the normal arriving Briton has voiced surprise at the queries of U. S. shipnewsmen about danger of war in Europe and whether Britain was in fear of attack. "You Americans are the ones who worry about war in Europe," has been the usual British remark. "In England we think more about the results of our cricket test matches...
...long-distance telephone time after time that Benito Mussolini is no booby, last week had the satisfaction of signing with II Duce's son-in-law, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, a general Anglo-Italian pact of conciliation, appeasement and concord. Having affixed their signatures, the Briton and the Italian clasped and shook hands with particular vigor and warmth. The Eagle of Fascism had made peace with the British Lion...
When he was asked, as one Briton to another, what he thought of Wally Simpson's constitutional crisis, he suddenly grew pale and clutched the edge of the table with his hands. After a pause, he spoke, haltingly...
...embassies. At Chapultepec last week, in the qualifying round of Mexico's national amateur championship, scores by Mexico's best golfers and a dozen U. S. visitors were almost as high as Mexico's best golf course. The medal went to Percy J. Clifford, Mexican-born Briton, for a 75. Johnny Goodman of Omaha, onetime U. S. Open champion, was a stroke worse. A 91-which a first-class golfer would not even bother to post in a U. S. national tournament-qualified one M. Roberts of Dallas. In the first 18 holes of the Goodman-Clifford...
Most U. S. novel readers and cinemaddicts picture Vice-Admiral William Bligh, captain of H.M.S. Bounty, as a brave, cruel, stingy Briton who looked like Charles Laughton, lost his ship in a mutiny and steered a small open boat over 3,618 miles of unknown sea. But Bligh was a significant figure in the history of the British navy, with many distinctions besides his romantic misadventures...