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DON’T mind being accused of a bias against everything British (since it seems to prove that a congenital prejudice in favour of the British attitude and outlook is being kept well under control), but I hate to be caught out in a mistake that I haven’t made. A correspondent, who desires to remain anonymous, writes:."‘Regarding your wisecrack (on Plymouth Adventure), ‘. . . it’s pretty free and easy history,’ the same applies to your knowledge of history. The Mayflower started her voyage from Plymouth. . . Any fourth form child knows that she did not start from Southampton." It is, of course, a long time since I was in the fourth form, but it is only a few minutes since I checked myseif against the Encyclopaedia Britannica (American edition). There the enquiring reader will discover that it was the Pilgrim Fathers who made the mistake of. sailing from Southampton. Fortunately, they discovered their error in time, put back and set off again, this time from Plymouth. Plymouth Adventure correctly recorded this initial ror and filling.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 19
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