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CONTRASTS OF FRENCH AND BRITISH WAYS OF LIFE

... foggy weather one winter, the cross-channel steamers could not operate. In Victoria station a notice was put up The Continent isolated. The question of food was another difference. Most French people complained about English cooking, English people looked ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1950
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 646 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

VIEWPOINT

... its all they have id my stipend me as in 1860. , Friday, January 36, 1-953 Tr 'DARN MIRROR 11111111111111111111 11 CONTINENT ISOLATED THERE ' S no use crying over spilt milk. But expressing much of what I think there's a good deal of use in crying think ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1953
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1789 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... In the frozen wastes of the far Styled fi Koyior Morloy BolUto 1 simEV si LINGERIE TOLIO north of the North American continent isolated groups weather-hardened kedp a continuous watch the Arctic Across these two military powers face each other waiting ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1954
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1679 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OUTSIDE

... of world Imports, will be a roe' little trading bloc and Britain will be outside it. The smug joke— Gale in Channel. Continent isolated. Will be given a new and not-sofunny twist Further proof of the importance that London places on the Pieitfi liters ...

Published: Tuesday 15 April 1958
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NIGGERS AT CALAIS

... Europe. When, some time ago, the French Channel ports were fogbound an English newspaper came out with the headline CONTINENT ISOLATED, and there is no doubt that for many of our more extreme and solid citizens the niggers begin at Calais. Hence the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1961
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 890 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

One way only

... thought is that of the British newspaper headline which cried “ Continent isolated by fog.” The up-to-date version att,er‘ yesterday’s Press conference in Paris, must be “ Continent isolated by President de Gaulle.” This great and strange man has now given ...

Published: Tuesday 15 January 1963
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Thunner to be started soon

... by 1971. says The Reader's Digest No longer, when a dense fog blankets southern England, could a newspaper proclaim Continent isolated! It all began in 1802 when a French engineer, Albert Mathieu, proposed an 18-mile passage with a roadbed for carriages ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1964
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 293 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Jrt A quiet doze and a The H-bomb: the solution ? SINCE the appearance of my last in this newspaper

... “Chunnel” by 1971 says The Reader’s Digest No longer when a dense fog blankets southern England could a newspaper proclaim “Continent isolated!” 65-MINUTES CROSSING When the Channel tunnel is completed motorists will be able to cross to France in 65 minutes almost ...

34401 HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17 1971 27201 for b- -1 1C' HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER ..

... communication is far too parochial ENGLISHMEN are still amused by the legendary Times headline “Terrible Gales in Channel: Continent Isolated” but amusement is now tinged with embarrassment because the assumptions superiority which used to underpin the joke ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1971
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2506 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

How Europeanism can help the climate of understanding

... Insularity is still strong here and the feeling expressed in that famous newspaper poster of yesteryear Fog over Channel Continent isolated persists. Letters to newspapers continue to show deeprooted reluctance to the idea of being controlled by foreigners ...

Published: Monday 28 June 1971
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 482 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

How Europeanism can help the climate of understanding

... Insularity is still strong here and the feeling expressed in that famous newspaper poster of yesteryear Fog over Channel Continent isolated persists. by their nationals to Britain have created a climate of understanding which has never been achieved before ...

Published: Monday 28 June 1971
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 18 | Tags: none