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Thus Peter Barnes and James Richards, defiant and calm, were last week hanged by their necks until dead. They had been convicted by a jury of their peers of planting on Coventry's main street a bomb that blew to bits five innocent citizens. Most Englishmen could only say that they were murderers who got their just deserts...
Sorry you disliked my life of an average New Yorker (TIME, Dec. 18). . . . A cousinly misunderstanding is no fault of the average journalist. The average editor who employs Englishmen to write about you and Americans to write about the United Kingdom is not really to blame. The poor fish is the average reader who on both coasts of the Atlantic selects the worm to taste before he swallows the hook. Even you, mighty angler that you are, must not tell them the bait is phony; otherwise, we shall all go short on Fridays...
...descendant of Norman pirates, Porter Sargent is no Anglophobe, believes that "an Englishman, at his best, is the finest creature nature so far has produced, with the exception of a Chinaman at his best." But much as he loves Englishmen, he loves debunking more. Says he: "I don't expect ever to discover Truth, but I do believe that I can uncover un-Truth...
...played with moderate success, basketball has been introduced by touring American teams, and a Finnish variation of baseball is played largely in the country districts by 40,000 players in 600 clubs. But Finns regard track as their national sport even more fanatically than do Americans baseball or Englishmen cricket...
Four years ago a young English writer, Wystan Hugh Auden, incorporated these lines in the chorus of a play. Auden's poems were at that time widely talked about and widely misunderstood-with some reason. They seemed brilliant, veiled, obscurely revolutionary. By October 1939, however, few Englishmen could still look blank over such lines as these. Their meaning was all too painfully clear...