DUTCHMAN’S VIEW OF BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26204, 30 August 1950, Page 7

DUTCHMAN’S VIEW OF BRITAIN

CHANGES SEEN IN LAST TWENTY YEARS

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, August 28.

A Dutchman. Professor G. J. Renier, who, in 1931, wrote a book entitled “The English—Are They Human?”, in which he said that he found the English nation a mixture of arrogance and weakness, is revisiting Britain. In a broadcast during, the week-end he withdrew some of his criticisms. "All your children are well nourished and properly clad,” he said, “and the poorer children have limbs as straight as those from the best homes. The classes which never believed in the virtue of the unmoving upper lip have acquired power, and the conception of an English gentleman as the embodiment of perfection has disappeared. “Now you are given to excessive and unnecessary self-searching, but there is no trace of weakness.” Indian Villages Flooded.—More than 509 villages are under water In the Darbhanga Division of North Bihar after flooding by the Kosi river. The flood waters have inundated an area of more than 300 square miles, immersing 150,000 huts and houses,—New Delhi, August 27.