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...hungry, undersized Englishman who gave his name as John Hume Ross enlisted in the R.A.F. He found the going rough, and he was not much of a soldier. He tried manfully to enjoy the ruggedness of his unaccustomed surroundings, but his accent was Oxford, and he was shocked by the obscenities that peppered everyone's speech but his own. Sometimes physical training made him ill. Each night he scribbled notes before lights out. The men wondered about this queer one, but not for long. Four months after he enlisted, the newspapers printed the sensational story: Airman Ross was really...
...religious faith is best measured against the pressures of human weakness. In The Power and the Glory Graham Greene gave a classic demonstration of the ordeal by inner torture that follows when a priest who is a weak man falls from grace. Now Ronald Hardy, a young (35) Englishman (and an Anglican) has written a first novel that establishes him as Greene's No. 1 disciple...
...Paul Gauguin was: the middle-aged Paris stockbroker who callously turned his back on business and family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...
...your Dec. 20 article on those English bell ringers: those fellows may not have bats in their belfry but they sure have bells in their bathos. It plainly shows that you don't have to be crazy to be an Englishman, but that it sure helps...
...Indian can dine at Claridge's in London, but not in the "Europeans Only" restaurants of Nairobi. If there is segregation in Kenya's schools (which there is), if a Negro woman must shop through a hatch in the wall in Rhodesia (which she must), the decent Englishman at home hears about it in no village pub, worries over it in no angry parish meeting. It all happens several thousand miles away, and in another country...