"Limey!" hooted toughies. "I say, ole chahp," they drawled, making monocles with their fingers. With such normal antics, pupils in many a U. S. school this month greeted their small British guests. But by last week most of Britain's 2,700 young evacuees in the U. S. had begun to feel at home in U. S. schools. Teachers and pupils chuckled over differences in U. S. and British education.
Because they had attended prep or "public" (British for private) schools in England, most of the 2,700 were placed in U. S. private schools. Little Britons were surprised to find that most U. S....
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