"SPEAKS ENGLISH"
U.S, Consul Has Very Slight Drawl AUCKLAND, This Day. Fitst impressions are deeeptive. It needed a sharply attentive ear to convince an interviewer on "the Monterey that Thomas Murray Wilson, the new United States Consul in Austraiia, who is proceeding to Sydney, is Amerieanborn. His English was SO English that the pressman thought there must be some mistake. " Mercy 1" Mr Wilson exclaimed aghast. "Don't say that ah was born in Tennessee." Chuckling at the interviewer 's expense, and in the faihtest Southern drawl, he said how much he was looking forward to his first visit to New Zealand an'd Austraiia, how he spent the last four years in Washiugton, and how he had been on foreign service in China and India.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 54, 26 November 1937, Page 5
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124"SPEAKS ENGLISH" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 54, 26 November 1937, Page 5
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