AMERICA VIEWS ENGLAND
“I think Dover is the most polite, and at the same time the most English town in the British Isles,” said Mr. H. R. McLellan, the American author and world traveller, when asked why he always made the famous Cinque Port his centre when visiting England. “For one thing, it is such a fine jumping-off place and an equally easy landingground,” he said. “I don’t know any port in Europe where there is such a varied service between so many other ports daily. That makes It ideal for a nomad like myself. Above all, its intense ‘Englishness’—expressed in the castle, the winding streets, the formidable cliffs, and the very accent of the inhabitants —appeals to me in a way that does not happen anywhere else. Even the Customs officials are less officious than I have found them elsewhere. I wouldn’t say they are exactly polite, but they refrain from being arrogant.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 27
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