HABIT IN BRITAIN
TO LOOK ON GLOOMY SIDE Mil. COATES ADVOCATES OPTIMISM B? TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPTBIGHT. London, December 3. “It seems almost to have become a habit in Britain to look upon the gloomy side of everything. I cannot understand that view at all. The worse things are, the greater the optimism ought to be," declared Mr. Coates, in responding to the toast of his health at a commercial men’s luncheon at the Guildhall, Worcester. Speaking at the Imperial Conference, Mr. Coates said that after listening to all the speeches, he thought that Britain ought to feel very pleased that t-he had been admitted into the Empire. (Laughter.) “New Zealanders,” he added, are far more British than the people here, where I have seen ‘God Save the King’ sung with three people sitting. They would not tolerate that in New Zealand, for very good and sufficient reasons.”
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 12
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147HABIT IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 12
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