WHAT THEY CAME FOR
TWO AMERICANS FIGHT INCIDENT LN ENGLAND "In a little town far from London. two Americans were so rowdy about settling a light of their own that they landed in the village gaol. The police found a brand new Act of Parliament prevented them from handling the case in a British court, so the local magistrate had to telephone the nearby army camp. "He said to the sergeant avlio answered the phone: 'I've a couple of your men picked, up for fighting.' Back came the answer: 'Well, that's what they camc over here for, isn't i t..' " —(Mrs Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, in a BBC broadcast on "Tlv Yank Behaves Himself.')
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 41, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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114WHAT THEY CAME FOR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 41, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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