OLD TIME “UNITY"
The Prime Minister’s reference to tho country’s unity in the face of threatened invasion recalls a time when wo wore by no means a united nation under such a threat. In tho winter of 1745, when rumours were flying about England and Prince Charlie’s army was believed to be nearing London, Fielding’s “famous Jacobite squire ” canie into an inn “ with great joy on his countenance ” and shook the landlord by tlie hand, saying. “ All’s our own, boy; ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed iu Suffolk. Old England for ever!” (‘Tom Jones, Book IX., Chapter If.) —‘ Observer.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23729, 9 November 1940, Page 3
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99OLD TIME “UNITY" Evening Star, Issue 23729, 9 November 1940, Page 3
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