Foreign News: My Dear Bishop

"Britain," complained the Bishop of Rochester, "has sunk into a complaining lethargy. . . . The record of strikes, ca'canny* and absenteeism since God gave us the victory has blotted the most splendid page of all English history."

The British man-in-the-street was too tired to reply, but into the breach sprang his favorite spokesman, Columnist Nat Gubbins of London's Sunday Express.

"I haven't pounced on a bishop for a long time," wrote Columnist Gubbins. "For many years they have kept rather quiet. . . . But even if bishops . . . are not now saying the delightfully foolish things they used to...

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