MOST POLITE ENGLISH TOWN
AMERICAN’S PRAISE OF DOVER “I think Dover is the most polite and at the same time, tho most English town in the British Isles,” said Mr H. R. McLellan, an 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 landing ground,” Mr McLellan 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 its 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.” As Mr McLellan boarded the steamer for Calais he turned and raised his hat to Dover, and a harbour official saulted in return and waved a hearty “Bon voyage, sir!”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 7
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