STRAWS THAT SHOW
ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY. A straw —but one of many. An Englishman. whose fortune it is to be large and blonde, and whose misfortune it is to look in consequence Teutonic, has just returned from a motoring trip in Italy. Wherever he was known to be British he was received with open arms; wherever he was mistaken for a German he was cold-shouldered. The climax came when he called one day at a garage for some repair. He failed to make himself understood in Italian, so tried French. That was no good, either, so he turned to German. The proprietor broke into execrations and drove him off lhe premises. —"Janus, in the "Spectator.''
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 7
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115STRAWS THAT SHOW Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 7
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