[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER V: The Ancient Grudge 1/5
It was in Broad Street, Philadelphia, before we went to war, that I overheard the foolish--or propagandist--slur upon England in front of the bulletin board.
After we were fighting by England's side for our existence, you might have supposed such talk would cease.
It did not. And after the Armistice, it continued.
On the day we celebrated as "British Day," a man went through the crowd in Wanamaker's shop, asking, What had England done in the War, anyhow? Was he a German, or an Irishman, or an American in pay of Berlin? I do not know.
But this I know: perfectly good Americans still talk like that.
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