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When a young Englishman named Nicholas Cresswell was touring the Colonies last year, his journal guardedly referred to the "Sgnik Sdneirf that he met. Cresswell's code was transparent. But the need for protective secrecy on behalf of the "King's Friends" in the New World is dramatic enough. By now, the harassing of known Loyalists?an estimated 15% of the population?has reached a point that might best be described by a bit of tavern-house doggerel: "Tories with their brats and wives Should fly to save their wretched lives...
...Cherokee Indians were surprised and puzzled a few years ago to learn that an Englishman wanted to buy five tons of clay in the Carolina mountains. But Josiah Wedgwood usually gets what he wants. He offered the Indians £500 for the material and had it shipped back to London...
Americans abroad have been boasting for years about California wines, only to be greeted in most cases by polite disbelief-or worse. Among the few fervent and respected admirers of le vin de Californie in France is a transplanted Englishman, Steven Spurrier, 34, who owns the Cave de la Madeleine wine shop, one of the best in Paris, and the Academic du Vin, a wine school whose six-week courses are attended by the French Restaurant Association's chefs and sommeliers. Last week in Paris, at a formal wine tasting organized by Spurrier, the unthinkable happened: California defeated...
...fall of the Bastille. But TIME does not limit itself to politics. In September of 1789, Mozart has just been commissioned to write a comic opera (Cost Fan Tutte), and TIME'S Books section reviews a new book of poems, Songs of Innocence, by a young Englishman named William Blake...
Hellman says that her own feelings were perhaps best summed up by the English writer Richard Crossman, who claimed that "It took an Englishman a long time to fight for a liberty, but once he had it nobody could take it away, but that we in America fought fast for liberty and could be deprived of it in an hour." The events of the past four years have proven Mr. Crossman all too wise, and have proved that Hellman's anger is all too well-founded...