“VERY RICH AND VERY BUMPTIOUS"
LADY ASTOR ON AMERICA. FLEA FOR INTERNATIONAL UNITY. LONDON, February 13. “It is the 100 per cent. American and the 100 per cent. Englishman 1 fear. I think all 100 per cent, citizens ought to be locked up,” said Lady Astor, who is herself an American, in the course of a speech at a luncheon. She continued: “America is very young, very large, very rich, and very bumptious. Ido not blame it. When England was very rich she also was very bumptious. Wo only need to look back to Elizabethan times. We know that for years England has been the governing country of the world, but the time has come for another rich, large country to come in. She is naturally trying to feel for the ropes. lam neither proEnglish nor pro-American; I want to devote my life to securing unity between the Empire and the United States, the two greatest Christian democracies. It does not matter whether America is popular; England was never popular, but she did not worry, and people who did not like her have come to respect her.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 4
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187“VERY RICH AND VERY BUMPTIOUS" Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 4
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