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Sirs: Permit me to correct an impression that might be created in the minds of some readers by the ill-natured and silly letter in the June 13 number of Time signed CYRIL D. H. G. DILLINGTON-DOWSE. I am an Englishman of 25 years' residence in London and 20 in the United States, and I know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent...
...level or usage in England. I repeat, I am a British citizen and I have no prejudice either way, but I trust that none of your readers will regard the grotesque effusion of Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse as representative of English culture, English critcism or English sentiment. FRANK VINCENT WADDY...
...with the Canadian forces in France and Belgium from February, 1915, to October, 1918, in various ranks, from Private to Staff-Captain, Corps Headquarters. I desire to apologize to you, and the thousands who -will have read it, the deplorably tactless, ill-timed, and partially untruthful letter of "ONE" Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. . . . A "bitter taunt" indeed! A cowardly taunt. The taunt of one who has forgotten the English Public School Boy's principle of good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman, "never to hurt the feelings of another...
...fatheads like Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse (in TIME, June 13), who break out every once in a while with such profound absurdities, that retard closest friendship between the two English speaking nations...
...term "foul" seems to be in good usage at present among the British aristocracy ; and I therefore wish to apply it with all possible emphasis to the letter appearing in your issue of June 13, and signed by Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse of London, His insinuation that "the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank. . . found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight" is a foul and slanderous...