The Archive · 1939

Ugly Worship

Film stars arriving in London have. long been accustomed to the hysterical Their game is to get near the stars and tear off bits of their clothing. And the "Express" says that even The pleasantest news of the week is that new potatoes are in again, they appear on restaurant menus now and not prohibitively priced. Spain, our usual source at this season, can for the moment do nothing, and will in the autumn be buying Jarge quantities of seed potatoes from abroad. But the Channel Islands, West Indies, even South Africa, all contribute. The foreign new potatoes are never equal to the English ' potatoes. Still they ere new potatoes, and there is no better vegetable grown. And to think that after Raleigh introduced them to England it took 200 years before our ancestors really adopted them.

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