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...Wrote the Führer: "In Germany before the war, in the schools, in the press and in the comic newspapers, one gradually created an impression of the character of the Englishman, and perhaps more even of his empire, which was bound to lead to the most disastrous self-deception. This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital. ... I remember how astounded were the faces of my comrades when for the first time we met the Tommy face to face in Flanders...
...year, fearing invasion, China threatened to close her ports to foreigners and East India Company merchants promptly began tea cultivation in Assam. The wily Chinese foiled the first attempt by selling tea seeds which had been boiled. Even after cultivation got under way, it was not successful until an Englishman named Robert Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese and spied out the methods used in the famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces 800,000,000 Ibs. a year, of which it exports over...
...with the degrees of Government control over them, carried the speech complete, summarized or emasculated. German news-sheets professed to be astonished at Mr. Chamberlain's endorsement of the Roosevelt attack, concluded that the British Prime Minister is now taking orders from Washington. "President Roosevelt apparently expects every Englishman to do his duty," gibed the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung. One German leader to take public note of the fact that the U. S. is now one of the Nazis' chief opponents was Karl Kaufmann, political leader of Hamburg, who warned that the U. S., along with Soviet Russia, Nazidom...
...problems of the President's seminar on U. S. foreign policy were sharply pointed up by the arrival in the U. S. of an unofficial ambassador from Great Britain. The President took pains to say he would receive ex-Foreign Minister Anthony Eden as one more visiting Englishman. But it was perfectly clear that they would meet this week as one democrat talking to another in an autocrats' world, for Mr. Eden quickly made it obvious that he had come to the U. S. as an apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage...
Howe-is a short, sharp, outspoken Yankee who looks a good deal like an Englishman himself. While he was editing Living Age, he became convinced that British-American antagonism was growing. War debts, the Ottawa agreement, books like Frank Hanighen's The Secret War for Oil strengthened his conviction. In his book, the U. S. teems with British propagandists and secret agents; the English Speaking Union manipulates U. S. public opinion; and, according to Sir Wilmot Lewis, Mr. Howe sees an Englishman under every...