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...busses without striking up a conversation with you, it doesn't mean they are being haughty and unfriendly. They don't speak to you because they don't want to appear intrusive or rude." (Says the Guide's British counterpart, prepared by Journalist Sir Willmott Lewis for R.A.F. cadets training in the U.S.: "Fellow travelers are by that very fact acquaintances in the States. It will not be resented if you get into conversations without any preliminary maneuvers...
They will shout 'good try' even if it looks to you like a bad fumble. In America the crowd would probably shout out remarks which everyone would understand, but which the British might think insulting." (Sir Willmott advised R.A.F. cadets that booing was essential to U.S. sports: "The idea is to win, not just to have a game . . . not a bad idea for a fighting...
Since 1920 Willmott Lewis has been correspondent for the London Times in Washington. Knighted by his King nine years ago, he is well known to U.S. audiences as a lecturer on foreign affairs, is recognized by Washington newsmen as about the ablest correspondent sending U. S. news to Europe...
Last week 62-year-old Sir Willmott added another side line to his activities. With Polish Journalist Edward Weintal, he brought out thefirst issue of Foreign Correspondence, a weekly newsletter review of events abroad, for U. S. readers...
...Willmott looked at the possibilities for peace, saw little hope of war ending in the near future. Said he, of the effects of a German-Russian victory on U. S. policy: "The time will come when [these questions] will be soberly debated, but . . . the period of a presidential election is not such a time...