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Some of the most aristocratic schools in Britain backed the bill: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse. Their existence depended on its passage. Financial troubles had already forced one public school, Weyrnouth, to close down (TIME, April 28.) The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic...
Nehru was the somewhat spoiled son of prosperous parents. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, spent a soft period in London dabbling in Fabianism, studying law. During World War I, back in India, he joined a couple of home-rule leagues, got married, first came to know Mohandas K. Gandhi. But when post-War restlessness brought the Rowlatt Bills and Gandhi's first defiance in India, Nehru was in at the birth. He was profoundly excited by that first great wave of nonviolence, came as near religion as he had since early childhood (not very near...
Closemouthed as he has been on the subject, Winston Churchill told Harrow students last December: "When this war is won-as it surely will be-it must be one of our aims to establish a state of society where the advantages and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed by the few shall be far more widely shared by the men and youth of the nation as a whole." A few days earlier, in answer to the question: "Is it not desirable that the German people should suffer humiliation and defeat?", Churchill answered: "I will be content if they suffer defeat...
...City newspaperman, he sums up two Britains, both of which are in the present war up to the hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty pronouncing a letter-theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strikebreaker and Red-baiter; and yet, when he tours the gutted slums of London, old women say: "God bless you, Winnie...
...without the public-school spirit. Cried Laborite H. B. Lees-Smith: "Life in a boarding school is a crowd life, a herd life. . . . This unnatural system has resulted in virtually two nations. The masses, educated in State-controlled day schools, never come into contact with the sheltered lads of Harrow and Eton...