The Archive · 1941

Spartan Britain Cheerfully Grows Shabby Says Professor

aroma addressed to Americans, this article will be read with interest by the British people as a shrewdly-drawn picture of themselves during time: to quote its words, of "far-reaching upheaval."

Its author, recently returned home after spending six months at Oxford as Harmsworth Professor of History, Professor A. Nevius, of Columbia University, states the "Daily Telegraph."

Some observers who have returned from brief visits to Great Br ain have emphasized the normality of life in the island, but they have not seen far beneath the surface.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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