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...paving stones and pretend, with the aid of a back green or even of a flowerpot, that they are in a hamlet on the Downs." Yet this self-deception is not all lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere are born in the towns and bred in the streets. Yet out of these streets came the men who could outlast the Arabs in the desert, who could outfight the Japanese in the forests, who flew above the birds and dived below the whales...
Peaches & Somersaults. To many of the Californians, who clung together like Englishmen in the jungle, London was a strange, provincial place. The men from the Coast bunked together four in a room, hit the chow line as a unit. For dates, they met California girls at Earl's Court, a district halfway between Uxbridge and Southlands College (where the U.S. women's Olympic team was quartered...
...been written in wartime to Archbishop William Godfrey, papal Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, for transmission to the Pope. The first (in October 1943), referring to restrictions imposed on the Pope, by the German occupation of Rome, expressed "to His Holiness my profound sympathy and that of multitudes of Englishmen who are not of his obedience." The second, written on Good Friday, 1944, was another message of sympathy that included a prayer for peace and that "the whole fellowship of Christ's disciples may be so guided by the Holy Spirit that we may together declare the Christian principles...
...bustling Hertfordshire town of St. Albans last week, 1,000 sober Englishmen, dressed up as Roman legionaries, Saxon peasants, Norman kings, monks and long-haired cavaliers, re-enacted the glory of their town. The occasion: the 1,000th anniversary of St. Albans School...
...first volume of his history of the war is already partially familiar to everyone, just as his career and his abilities were partially familiar to Englishmen at the time he became Prime Minister. Much of this book has been serialized in LIFE and in the New York Times, and it moreover follows incidents in a career already exhaustively reported. It may seem inconceivable that there is more to learn about Churchill...