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...woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when the Nazis came.) But the next week she was dancing a cockney tango with some of England's "little people" in an East End pub...
...their knees in white folks' houses, smoking tight-rolled English cigarets and guzzling flat English ale. When they wrote the folks back home, perhaps they complained of the damp English weather, the limp food. Or perhaps they mentioned stout John Parrish, pubkeeper of The Bull, who said: "My pub is open to everyone who behaves himself. The Negroes could teach some of our boys some manners...
...pub in Windsor people hastily set down their drinks, burst into tears, got up and scrambled for the doors. Housewives in Richmond, shopping on busy George Street, suddenly scattered like scared hens, lost their shopping lists, staggered tearfully home with nothing for their families' dinners. Near London's Liverpool Street Station, in the rush hour, weeping barmaids tried to serve hundreds of customers who lurched in as though half-seas over. They weren't, but they were gassed up. The A.R.P. was teaching the public a lesson. They had not been carrying their gas masks...
Once he sat in a "fine, decent pub, the type found only in rural England, run by a nice middle-aged woman and her two daughters." It was three miles from an airport where some of the R.A.F. night fighters were stationed. One "lad named Terry, who was like a character out of a book" described just what he would of do to Nazi troop planes if they ever tried to invade England...
Scotland was burning last week, as any Clydesider in any pub would have told you: "A scandal, lad, a scandal. The Parliament allowing only half a day to a debate on the dismal category of trends and tendencies in Scotland. Ah, lad, the Scottish workingman is getting the short end of the horn as usual...