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Many a Briton shares Dr. Flexner's disdain. "Not one Etonian or Harrovian in a thousand," wrote University of Liverpool Professor Edgar Allison Peers, "would consider entering a shabby modern university, unlovely in appearance, unmellowed by tradition, and attended by men who actually live with their families and probably have only the faintest idea of the respective significance of a dinner jacket and a white waistcoat...
...London's Tory newspapers happily noted last week that the old school tie had come into its own again in Britain. In the outgoing Labor cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab...
...Simla, India's cool summer capital, an old Harrovian, Indian Nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, and other Indian leaders will confer this week with Viceroy
Tall, trim Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor-eject of Burma, arrived in London impatient to dispel two nasty suspicions: 1) that many of the Burmese people had helped the enemy into their country; 2) that evacuating British forces had left Burmese earth unscorched. Said Old Harrovian Sir Reginald: "The Burmese with any stake in the country played the game by Great Britain. When the invasion began, the Japanese did not succeed in winning over a single Burman of any weight...
...Harrovian had been trying to put a good face on things with a bit of guff, he had been ingenuous. The left-wing Tribune screamed bloody murder: "The best people stood by us. What the common herd did doesn't matter. British imperial rule defined in a flash!" Sir Reginald thereupon edited his remarks. Only 4,000 of Burma's 15,000,000 people had actively helped the Japs, said he; they were extremists of the nationalist Thakin Party...