“THIS ENGLAND”
AN AMERICAN'S VIEW
LONDON, Sept,' 1
.Mr. Bruno Lessing, columnist of Air. llcurst’s Now York American, writes in that newspaper about England : It’s sane. You, can do everything ltc.ro except break the law. “Ladies” sue “gents” for breach of promise, and usually get damages of one cent. When a good-looking “lady” poisons her husband, they hang her. Justice is coldblooded, but fair. 4 Hold-ups and robberies in all England, for one year, hardly eomo np to 5 per cent of a month’s record in America’s big cities. The 1 Yin 10 Minister attends the llenley Regatta, and even his enemies cheer him. And the. police never interfere with anyone* who talks from a soap box. It’s democratic. The aristocracy of London awes only the aristocracy of London. Ami when the titled gentry get into court they stand no better chance (ban a chambermaid.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 10
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