JAPANESE PREFER ENGLISH WAYS
LONDON. June 22.
Japanese prefer English ways to American and should be allowed to come to Britain to study the English' 1 way of life, the poet. Mr. Edmond Blunden. a former adviser to the British liaison mission in Tokyo, said today.
Mr. Blunden, who was addressing the Royal Empire Society in London, said: “It is plain that the old Japanese Anglomania has never died away. Japan does not buy editions of Shakespeare, the Oxford Dictionary or Churchill's memoirs by the thousand for mere show.
“Anglomania is still so strong that to he against it is to be really one of the intelligentsia.
“The Japanese will be our friends if ever they have a chance to show it. Young Japanese should be permitted to come here and ascertain that our lecturers did not merely hallucinate them."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 5
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