Damn You, World
Last year the oracle uttered through Tribune from the beaches of the Riviera, and it said: 'Damn you, England!' Now, from England, it utters again in the same place, and it says in effect : 'Damn you, Europe, and damn all lying, concealing, bullying, commercial, hoaxing, squalid, mercenary, bizarre, inquisitorial, crawl- ing, expedient, dishonourable, obsessive, guzzling, appalling, disloyal and crooked sup- porters of Britain's entry into the European Economic Community.' Britain seems pretty good hell to Mr. John Osborne when he's in Europe. But when he's in England he considers Europe to be a monumental swindle, a brothel, a rabble. The mounting violence of Mr. Os- borne's logorrhoea—that chaotic flux—suggests that his immersion in the life of Luther could most profitably be followed by a long study of William the Silent.
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