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The blonde who takes the coats Munidz, there were people who at a certain restaurant in Zurich, of England with greater .con- turned to me and smiled. “Anl.So tampt than any Englishman has you are back again! Back to your ever wasted on an organ-grinder [long talks about politics.
and that's saying something. "But at least England has come In Prague there were taxi-drivers to her senses while you were away who refused to carry the English she has woken up and even got, business men still resident in the one leg out of bed,"
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That was on my arrival back....... Even here in Switzerland, where here, after a recent trip to England. live, people asked what the devil You think she was exaggerating? had happened to England; why it Not a bit of it.
had gone bad overnight, and lost its She was under-stating the posi- courage and its integrity and its tion.
sense of justice all those things, the Swiss pointed out, on which it is so fond of priding itself in
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You have no idea how you were
You were never told, in England, the things that they have been say- ing about you on the Continent. public.
You were not informed of the accusations that ordinary decent laughed at right across Europe. people were making about you-not
When there was no danger, of in Chancelleries, and Embassies, war you rushed madly in all direc but at railway stations, instuffy
tions and ploughed up your public third-class carriages, in small parks and made a lot of footling shops, and in the unpretentious plans which were quickly proved beer gardens and cafes that stretch unworkable.
from the Dutch border to the bleak villages of Rúmanía.
During all the dying months of last year I had to get about.
Do you know that during that crisis scarcely a single gas-maak had been issued in Germany? (They have got them since, and had to pay
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I was in France as well as Italy, for them; but they knew there was and from Germany I went to Hun- no need for them just then.y gary, Rumania, Yugo-slavia; not to interview the mighty; but to dis- cover for you the reactions of or dinary people.
And I can tell you now what I didn't like to tell you then; that England's name was lousy.
It stank.
England was the schoolmistress that had gone downhill; England was the prize hypocrite of Europe; England was the little boy that rings the bell and runs away; Eng- land was the country that kept no promises.
"Perfidious Albion" was the whit- ed sepulchre that Christ" Himself condemned.
There was an hotel servant in Vienna not afraid to talk.
“Austria always looked to Eng- land," he said, "admired her, loved her. But what, can we do now but believe the things our new Press tells us?
"They seem to be true. Why is she so weak and afraid?
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Do you know that during the ent has heard the paration was shown by the people brandy.
that's what DAVID WALKER is proud to say to-day.
Back in Europe after a brief trip to England, he has found that the Con-: tinent is looking up to Britain with res-
pect once more.
of Italy, because they knew there "Why must she be for ever would be no war? preaching like a school teacher Will you ever realise that during when all the time she is courting.a those days England resembled girl friend in Paris and drawing nothing more than an agitated
He has read the British Navy, the Force.
He has seen pict battleship launched discovered that the parks are being co new termination in speeches, and mad that Britain is onge he can respect
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ists, business men, soldiers, and You were told none of these casual acquaintances of the coffee things. You may not believe them houses.
even now. But they are trus, Their arguments were much the Luckily something else is true.
I have been wandering about "We may be wrong," they said, again this year. I have been back "but at least we are not afraid. Yet in Germany, and talked with people when we asked your help you pre- over the eastern borders, and one tended not to hear. So we have to thing stands out a mile. fight alone. Our economic defeat is also England's humiliation."
In Italy, when I was there, after
Right across Europe public opin ion has awang round"
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