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...most kindly described as lap-doggerel. The picture, which is a 126-minute apostrophe to Beau Geste Britons and a Beau Geste Britain, may be most kindly described as somewhat pish and more than a little posh. It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams...
Crew Chief Stuart (who named the plane after hearing Englishmen ordering their pints of mild & bitter in a local pub) tried hard to think of something spectacular that had happened to the ship. On one raid, it is true, a burst of flak fountained up right through the open bomb bay. Hot steel fragments rattled against cold steel bombs with a hellish din. But nothing happened...
Coach Steve Ausnit of Dunster House stated, however, that the Englishmen will be a better team tomorrow with more practice behind them, and the game should be fast and open...
...Empire's battle toll was 667,159 in the first four years of war. Englishmen, whom the world has sometimes accused of allowing colonials to fight their battles, took pride in the fact that well over half of them (387,996) were men from the United Kingdom. Yet the strange fact (announced by Philip J. Noel-Baker, for the Ministry of War Transport) was that in the same period 588,742 Britons had become highway victims...
...great was the quantity of U.S.-made instruments of war piling up in England for the invasion that some Englishmen remarked: it was a wonder that the island did not sink under the weight...