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...dozen other major problems. Wrote he: "Nationalists want an Afrikaans Herrenvolk Republic, British extremists want a jingo Dominion. If no positive move is made to break this deadlock, the Smuts Government will collapse within five years. Chaos will follow which may end in a fight to the death between Englishmen and Afrikanders...
Cope's proposed solution: Englishmen should agree to form a republic, Afrikanders should accept it and agree to stay within the British Commonwealth. Anti-British Afrikanders, who outnumber and might outvote the English, were delighted. The English press was hostile. ("Sheer folly," grunted the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail...
...interrupts a comment on Englishmen-"I too love the earth and hate the world"-and in these words remembers a scene at home in Avila: "The broad valley remains visible with its checkerboard of ploughed fields and straggling poplars lining the straight roads, or clustered along the shallow pools by the river; and at night, in the not too distant mountains, the shepherds' fires twinkle like nether stars...
...Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...
Bridson spent three months banging about the U.S. before doing his first show: An Englishman Looks at Chicago. His half-hour script, presented by professional actors, was a notable job of interpreting a city known mainly to Englishmen for 1) gangsters, 2) rudeness. Wrote...