JOHN BULL'S METHOD
KO APPEAL FOR MERCY TWENTY SHILLINGS IN POUND. LONDON, July 20. “ The American branches overwhelmed us with kindness,” said Sir Henry Braddon, the chief guest at a luncheon given by the English-speaking Union to-day.
“ The only untoward incident was when an American clerk scanned my entry in the hotel and asked: ‘ Are you-man and wife? ’ 1 answered that 1 had been under that impression for thirty-five years, and asked him what'was wrong. The clerk, pointing to the entry, replied: ‘You’ve writtten Sir Henry Lucy Braddon.’ Sir Henry said he regretted that an English newspaper had represented America as a Shylock oyer the war debts. One of Australia’s greatest sources of pride was that England had never asked for mercy in money affairs, hut had always paid 20s_ in the £, despite almost incredible difficulties.
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Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 9
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136JOHN BULL'S METHOD Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 9
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