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...superstitious Englishmen were sure last week that Britain was "for it." "Woe Water" (which only runs just before a calamity) was tumbling down the hillsides of the Caterham Valley, about 20 miles south of London. Had not a bourne flowed out of the hills (according to local legend) before the Restoration in 1660 and the Plague in 1665, and again just before the revolution of 1688? Woe Water had run again in 1915, just two days before the German submarine campaign started, and in 1938, the year of Munich. The non-superstitious scoffed: an exceptionally wet winter had made...
There was one pleasant surprise. The Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, invited all of official New Delhi and the delegates to a cozy at home with guards flanking the fountains and spotlights playing on the fabulous flowerbeds of the Mogul gardens. Englishmen and Indians alike were surprised by the outpouring of guests (about 700). Said a Mountbatten aide, remarking the presence of dhoti-clad Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's son: "People are here who would never have attended the Viceroy's affairs in the old days." (This week Mohandas Gandhi planned to visit Viceroy House to talk about Britain...
...Bishop of Fulham has to be a special kind of bishop. His diocese covers some 800,000 square miles of northern Europe, from Biarritz to Iceland. His flock consists mainly of Englishmen-on-holiday, diplomatic service staffs, finishing-school girls, other British transients and trippers. His duties involve constant travel, and an interminable round of social occasions that would deepen the rings under the eyes of a gossip columnist. But the new Bishop of Fulham who was consecrated at St. Paul's this week could hardly wait to start his peripatetic...
...Englishmen abroad, he has observed, show an unexpected interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
...citizens had plenty of other problems-no less annoying because they were smaller than those of Greeks, Frenchmen, Englishmen and Chinese-and they were busy wrestling with those closest to their pocketbooks...