Word: britons
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...blow fell last week on that crusty, conservative Briton-of-Britons, Secretary for India Leopold Amery. Over the Berlin radio came the announcement that his son John would speak to Britain. The blow might have been softened by the fact that the German Government disclaimed responsibility for John's words. But the voice that followed read typical canned Nazi propaganda. Excerpts...
...Conservative M.P. he enlivened a House of Commons debate on the herring industry by gesturing with a dead herring as he argued; an autoist since 1897, in his old age he bragged he had never blown his horn, tried to make it illegal for any other Briton to blow...
...stopped to the more obvious methods of waving the flag. "Eagle Squadron" an otherwise excellent picture, was made sloppy and in many spots embarrassing by the long sequences lauding the British bull-dog spirit and overdoing the jolly-well, pip-pip, chins-up attitude of the average Briton. This has not been done in "Desperate Journey," but rather the director has let the actions of the characters speak for themselves in conveying the same idea. Needless to say, the latter method is by far the more forceful...
...only indoor amusement which, at 61, he finds really worth while. The issues in the bundle from the Army post office were wrinkled and limp after the long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column by column, then proceeded to the next issue, and the next, in scrupulous chronological sequence. Refreshed, restored...
Rommel and his officers were very polite. They apologized for not having doctors on hand to care for the wounded among the prisoners. Rommel even lent the colonel his field glasses for a casual look around. Then he granted the gloomy Briton permission to make a farewell speech to his troops...