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...Englishman of breeding is opposed to teaching correct or "standard" speech to the masses, as we try to do here...
Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer paid a visit to Benito Mussolini (see col. 3), which caused a bright Englishman to observe that he had never before heard of rats boarding a sinking ship. At Merano, in northern Italy, Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conferred with Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Italian Chief of Naval Staff, about the sea war against Britain in the Mediterranean...
Eliot House had a dinner "in hall" last sight to celebrate the appointment of Harley Granville-Barker as visiting lecturer. The guest, an Englishman, made a short speech after dinner during which he predicted a new Middle Ages in case of a British defeat, and emphasized that democracy is losing no ground in England. Questions were allowed after the talk, and discussion centered around the question of how democratic Britain...
...wrote of Churchill, Man of the Vear, in the Jan. 6 issue of TIME, is also a great master of words. As an Irishman, having long heard that England could fight to the last Irishman, I must now say that it can also fight to the last Englishman. A champion is never an accident-for long-said Frank Moran to me-one of the great bruisers of his era. I fully realize that there are those who say that Churchill represents a dying social system. If that is true, he still knows how to hold his hands...
More than a fortnight ago a British battleship cleared from an undisclosed British port, carrying a tall, grave Englishman on a weighty mission. That mission might well turn out to be as important as any in British history. Lord Halifax's problem was not, like his predecessor the late Lord Lothian's, to state Britain's case to a skeptical, suspicious U. S. The stubborn, gallant, outnumbered resistance of Britain had transformed U. S. opinion, not only about the war. but about the character of the people Lord Halifax was to represent...