Modern Russia and England
Sir,—ln his eagerness to "dish" Mr, McGillick, "Fit/. James" in your Tuesday night's issue gets sentimental and quotes Scott. Scott was a sentimental Tory who, though he lived in the early nineteenth century, actually belonged to the middle ages. A later writer. Sir W. S. Gilbert, who was more in touch with reality, wrote: For lie might have been a Russian, A French or Turk or Prussian, Or p'raps Italian. But in spite of all temptations I'o belong to other nations, He still remains an Englishman. One wonders whether Gilbert was making fun of those who praised God that they were not as oilier men, but were English, or whether he had in mind such Englishmen as Sir Basil ZarahofT and Sir Otto Niemeyer, who apparently after some hesitation decided to be Englishmen. Patriotism may be a line tiling, but something more is needed than waving the Hag or fulsome adulation of our leaders. C.P.H.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 2 November 1939, Page 16
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