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...British Open Golf Championship at Sandwich was not that the first (67) tied Walter Hagen's record for the Open nor that the second (65) set a new record and put him nine strokes ahead of the field. It was the fact that Cotton is a Briton. No Englishman has won the British Open since Arthur Havers...
Author Brailsford differs from the peerage of panaceatic prattlers in his levelheaded, often ironic detachment. Though he is a Briton, he can take a truly-international view of disarmament: ''It would be unfair to question the sincerity of the general wish to disarm one's neighbors." Though he takes off his hat to the Fascists with a left-handed gesture ("The efficacy of beating as a method of refuting adversaries ranks among the major political discoveries of our century'') he does not regard Hitler as one of the beasts foretold in the Book of Revelation...
With his back to the wall of Germany's new moratorium (TIME, June 18), Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, iron-willed President of the Reichsbank, bristled into action last week as a Briton no less stubborn took drastic steps in London to make Germany...
...John Gilmour cut his way to glory and a D. S. O. through the Boer and World Wars. He has been Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and he believes that every Briton must do his duty by King and Country. That his police should be unable to stop jaywalking last week and unable the week before to create an atmosphere of order at Sir Oswald Mosley's monster Fascist mass meeting in Olympia (TIME, June 18). pained Sir John beyond expression. In the House of Commons he explained the traditional British theory that...
...14th Century visited every Moslem colony in the world. The sedately written narrative is spiced with many a quaint excerpt from the original chronicles, maps and reproductions of old engravings, tid bits of curious information. Sir Percy manifests the complacent chauvinism of the typical hardy, wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus although he gives the Dutchman Willem Janszoon credit for discovering Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast...