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Article: My Foreign Country: Trevor Fishlock's Britain.(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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Trevor Fishlock is a newspaper foreign correspondent who recently returned to this country and here gives an account of how the place and people struck him after long years of service abroad. He assures us, among other things, that no one from a recent intake of R.A.F. officer cadets had heard of the Battle of Britain. His declared purpose is to investigate how far this loss of nerve - he does not use the phrase, but that is what it is - has affected the British people as a whole in these days of Eurotunnel, of stately homes turned over to tourists, of dying 'sing-songs', wind farms and increased wine drinking.
His moral thrust soon gives out; the rest is bland, ...