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...Americans for the first 2 miles were bunched about 5 yards behind the Englishmen. Just before the end of the second mile, little Clark [H.B. of Harvard], who had been pluckily sticking with the leaders, dropped on the track in a faint. Smith of Oxford was soon forced to retire owing to cramps, and the last mile was fought between Workman and Palmer (Y). Workman outran Palmer in the last 1/3 mile, to win amid the wildest imaginable enthusiasm...
...dying day (1953) Belloc never understood why Oxford's All Souls had refused to make him a Fellow, why editors were reluctant to put him on their staff, why people thought him biased, why Catholics were upset by his behavior, why Englishmen thought him un-English. Author Speaight's book tells the reasons why frankly and fully, but without ever belittling the genius of the man best remembered for his verse who wrote so prophetically in his ardent youth...
...Eden has resigned in the interests of Anglo-American unity, then presumably we can expect a similar gesture from the U.S. Whatever he may believe himself, Dulles is a pontifical pain-in-the-neck to most Englishmen. Let's have a new man on your side too -fair's fair, y'know...
...main difficulty may lie in General Howe himself. Howe's misgivings, far from individualizing him, were in 1776 common to all but enlightened Englishmen (Charles James Fox wrote of one of Howe's own victories as "the terrible news from Long Island"); and even so, Howe's behavior might simply be due to his well-known indolence. His passive temperament has in any case communicated itself to the play. All too often Venus covers her flesh, Mars muffles his drums and Minerva swallows her words-while even oftener the Muse of Comedy turns her back...
...evidence that Britons, Frenchmen and Jews resident in Egypt were indeed being given short shrift. In Marseille, Jewish refugees from Port Said tearfully insisted that a few days prior to the Anglo-French attack, the Egyptian police seized one hostage from each Jewish family in the city. In London, Englishmen newly expelled from Egypt reported that their homes and other possessions had been auctioned off by the Egyptian government, and all their funds over $28 confiscated...