PRAISE FROM A GERMAN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 11

PRAISE FROM A GERMAN

Britain and Her Empire "INCOMPARABLY POLITE" j As a contrast to the views of a Ger'man newspaper correspondent who, |after a fiying visit to. London, regaled ihis readers "with tales of English dissolution and chaos, fhe views of another iGerman make interesting reading. Herr IKurt von Stutterheim, London correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt,. whose book, "Those English," is published this week, has been reporting "English affairs since 1923. He is married to an Englishwoman. Herr voq. Stutterheim thinks the English, for the most part, a polite and kindly people. 8 ' London,' ' he observes, "is incomparably ' more polite as a city than Paris. Its courtesy is far more sincere than that of Rome, and ' much more natural than the somewhat regimental politeness of Berlin." The anthor does not think very highly.of English housewives. He refers to the ' ' tragi-comic experiment^ in housekeeping" that follows a girl s ' tnarriage, and remarks that an Eriglish husband. will put up with things which would lead to a family quarrel in Germany. He. is surprised by the unmarried English girl's freedom. ' ' FlirtatioD," he says, "is a recognition institution in Epglish life. In'so far as material questions are concerned, the Englishwoman is more calculating than tlre English.' mau. Not heiresses, but ' eligible bnche' lors' are the golden calves worshipped in the market place." Herr von Stutterheim admires the aehievement of the British Enipirc "England's ambition," he points out "is not to be lord over life and death in the Enipire, but to be its clearing house. It is a magDilieent conception and unique in the history of the world. ' ' — '