"Then there was a French friend of mine who served as a liaison officer in the last war, who told me how horrified he had been on one of the first occasions that he visited a British puni to find the troops singing with atest gusto, and with apparent-móst poisonous venom, an translation of the German Hate." The way in which out the word "England" as of their hate appalled him with difficulty that he was "understand by English who naturally enjoyed the of the thing, that it was all demonstration of loyal affection for But he never could under-and was still puzzled over it years afterwards. What Be did learn, however, was that when he was addressed by British col-signify any personal interest in him, but that if they called him "old Frog Face" it meant they really had begun to like him.
"One more opinion, that of a Dutch mend of mine, given quite recently. After some complimentary remarks on the British effort in this war, very 1 sincerely expressed, he said that he was very afraid that when the whole business was over and the Allies had tun soft-hearted and, as he do this "cricket-playing stuff. might have reminded him of the historic remark of a man of another nationality, a German, who also considered this to be a British characteristic, for was it not Bismark who Once said, after bringing off successfully a typical piece of German duplicity "The English will always be fools but we shall never be gentlemen." A remark which, as to its latter half at any rate, testified that Bismarck knew his own people thoroughly for certainly they never And if the spirit true toc.
So there are four opinions and we might go on and pick out a good many more, but it begins to look as 4t we should get very little cut of them but the one obvious fact that nobody seems to understand us and that the way they see us presents to them only an unsolved puzzle. It seems therefore that we shall after all have to try and take a side glance at ourselves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.