MASTERS OF ENGLISH
More often, writes Mr Ivor Brown, it is the thud of the single syllables than the roll of a fuller style which prevails. "If there be anyone that makes many poor to make a few rich, (hat suits not a Commonwealth.” What modern leveller with all his proletarian jargon of liquidating mid-dle-class ideology ever improved on this superb simplicity of Oliver Cromwell’s? It is a quality which Mr Churchill achieved in his description of our debt to the Royal Air Force. Accordingly, those who would learn English can do so from the new Prime Minister or the old Protector.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 2
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102MASTERS OF ENGLISH Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 2
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