Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's famed public schools are flourishing as before. The class-conscious Englishman still feels compelled to give his children a distinctive U (upper-class) accent, recoils in horror from the non-U patois prevalent in many state schools. Yet public schools are also so costly ($1,200 yearly at Harrow) that many U parents are switching over to state schools, particularly at the primary level. At one brand-new school near London's fashionable South Kensington, the curb is lined with Bentleys, Jaguars and nannies when classes let out each afternoon. Says one U mother...
...Africa should be governed by the black man. No one can supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
...Kuala Lumpur, a second young Englishman also became "one of them" last week: 19-year-old National Serviceman William Broadley, who chose the name Gopal Singh. His only doubt: Will he be able to grow a beard...
With a year's-end Treasury surplus, steadily rising exports and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865, the Tories were able last spring to free the pound, lower income and purchase taxes, even reduce by 2? the price of the Englishman's beloved pint. If Gallup is correct, the Tories might not only win a third consecutive term in office-something no party has yet accomplished in British history-but might even increase their House of Commons majority...
...many places-in Madagascar, when you described the 1947-48 rebellion there; in Johannesburg, when you published your famous article about the dangers of living in that city; and in Kenya, during the Mau Mau emergency-I canceled my subscription and became one of your critics. As an Englishman, I felt that your reporting was a disservice to the British Commonwealth and the free world in general...