Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Above All (20th Century-Fox), adapted from Eric Knight's novel of the same name, asks the bitter, irrelevant question: Why should a young, disillusioned, lower-middle-class Englishman risk his life for the upper classes unless he is sure of a new shake after World War II is won? Like the novel, the picture fails to give a satisfactory answer...
...France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn't changed...
England wished India to have freedom. But what did Englishmen mean by freedom? They tacitly assumed that it meant something like dominion status. And that perhaps was all that India asked. But this spring, if a speculative reporter asked an Englishman whether he was prepared to give India complete freedom, whether he was willing that neither the King-Emperor nor any other Englishman should have any rule or special rights whatever in the subcontinent of India, it was quite apparent that the average Englishman had never even thought of such a thing...
...Market town of Zentsuji with 25,000 inhabitants near by. Camp covers six acres surrounded by barbed wire and a wooden fence. Two Army barracks, two stories high, well ventilated, 12,000 cubic meters in all. Capacity 500; present number 374. One Englishman from Shanghai, two Dutchmen, five Australians and rest Americans, of whom eight are from Gilbert Islands, 20 from Wake and the rest from Guam. Forty-five officers, ten doctors, two druggists, one dentist...
...fanatic-the 'rational' one ... 'I think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would not attend to the most pressing necessities of nature unless he could give a reason for it' "); Charles James Fox ("the most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other...