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... great . centres of European life and movement , ; . and the traveller realises that hero he is at the heart of a vast Continent isolated by no . streak of silver sea . • We ensconced ourselves in-l . a . carriage for Cologne , which dropped us in a few ...
... lecture upon our insular insolence illustrated by the ancient story of the newspaper headlines, “Dense Fog in Channel: Continent Isolated for Three Days.” The egregious ass who compiled that particular broadecast was unconscious of the fact that this is ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 1971, says The Reader’s Digest. No longer, when a dense fog blankets southern England, could a newspaper proclaim: “ Continent Isolated!” ...
... a resolution that Mousemole wouldmbe neutral, heMnd ere was the nawz r - line in the 19305: * :fi in the Channel,” *“ Continent isolated.” ~] am etc. Francis T. Williams. ...
... than it s n . . 1 wh lreßy fully tuned tomEEC p:l‘lciwe: and K‘flceq. the cheapest butter lsbhou be more than 60p per Continent isolated If readers with their own copy will kindly turn to pages 7 or 9 of Postal Rates — Overseas Com‘gendium. they w‘\? find ...
... No wish to be Britain's Queen? 21 East Clnrenig& is’tmt. ’ urgh, ...
... in Isolation T may no longer be possible, not at least without a sense of irony, for newspapers to run the beadfie ‘Continent isolated’. But Britain’s isolation is becoming almost as much of an obsession with the people who write these things as rottweilers ...
... Oui a ’Europe “CHANNEL storms. Continent isolated”: so runs the immortal journalistic enshrining of English isolationism. We use the term “English” advisedly; it is our contention that many a Scot will have observed with rightful dismay the resurgence ...
... “Scotland: Let the English control their own affairs”, with its echoes of that famous 7imes headline, “Fog in Channel: Continent Isolated.” - May I say that millions of us ‘English really do believe Scotland should be an indelpendem nation, if that's the ...
... and sundry, includini,their own countrymen, as they blockaded Calais, Boulogne, St Malo and Cherbourg, and left the Continent isolated from Britain. ; Why have French fishermen mounted this -blockade? There is probably a lengt,hmd eomg.ie;ated explanation ...