... 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 ...

... coasts of Britain, and Britain's most distinguished newspaper put out a contents bill, reading: Fog in the Channel. The Continent Isolated. Incidentally, this little story always goes down well in the United States as well as on the Continent of Europe. ...

... COCKNEY PAROCIII.kI,NII The London reaper t'hic•h bore the headlines, Storm in the Channel, Continent Isolated, faithfully expressed the parochialism of the Cockney. When we Call you English, said one Londoner In me. we are paying you the highest ...

... 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 ...

... `Down South' and 'Down Under' FOG in Channel: Continent . Isolated: one remembers the famous headline. Of the same calibre of excessively parochial reluctance to face the facts of life is the Eire Government's insistence that the letters of credence ...

... 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 ...

... eneral to^lay the far north the 1839.« S war. enemy aircraft. Defence sources WMt Qirmany, -in close North Ameriam Continent, isolated groups of weather- alrfle ido, and they have cut system U to be completed Powers,” with organising the hardened men ...

... W. ROYSTON Fox Brow, Clayton, Bradford. * • This reminds the reputed • headline in a London paper: Fog the Straits: Continent isolated.” —The Editor. ...

... St EKEMVC EXPRESS WrJir'Jmr Ort. Si 19S* International League Football Now ALES in the Channel Continent isolated. The classic newspaper heading is more ancient than most of us in the old black art care to consider, but it still raises a smile, if not ...

... 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 ...

... disrupted the steamer service only a British newspaper could have thought of the by now famous headline for the news, Continent Isolated However, not all their Insularity has prevented their cousins from across the Atlantic from making inroads into the ...

... 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 ...