On The Continent People Have

A Foreign Observer Is Struck By Our Gentleness: By The Orderly Behaviour Of The English Crowds, The Lack Of Pushing And Quarrelling, The Willingness To Form Queues.

The British Suffer From A Most Unfortunate Superiority Complex - Unjustified Even Under Victoria And Most Certainly Hopelessly Out-of-date Today.

On The Continent Stray Cats Are Judged Individually On Their Merit-some Are Loved, Some Are Only Respected; In England They Are Universally Worshipped As In Ancient Egypt.

The British Are Proud Of Their Ability To Create A Muddle And Then Muddle Through All Difficulties. I Must Shake The British Pride: Muddle Is Not An Exclusively British Institution. Read Descriptions, For Instance, Of The Over-organized, Wonderfully Systematic And "thorough" German War Machine During The Last War.

Bad English Was The Second Language Of Israel And Bad Hebrew, Of Course, Remained The National Language.