Bleak Weather In Britain

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 10

Bleak Weather In Britain

For more than 20 centuries the world’s literature has abounded in references to the inclement weather of the British Isles. Against the wide canvas of time, therefore, contemporary troubles in Britain represent merely one of the innumerable national emergencies that have resulted from blizzards, thaws, and floods. However, Britain’s unusually bleak winter has not yet passed entirely into history, and the widespread

privations and economic losses that it has caused

will evoke immediate regret

among all friends and kinsmen of the British people. For the average Briton even the momentous economic talks in Brussels have probably been overshadowed; and Dr. Johnson’s remark, “When two Englishmen meet, their first “talk is of the weather”, has been more than usually apposite. New Zealanders, accustomed to the vagaries of their own robust climate, will not stint their sympathy in British misfortunes, nor their good wishes for better weather and a successful issue to all Britain’s current difficulties.