On Easter Sunday General E. P. Curtis arrived in London
from the United States at a London hotel. The lift-man, who knew him well, greeted him with, " Well, General, glad to see you again. But what are you Americans up to? Here Oxford chooses an American cox and their boat sinks. Now we get an American admiral in the Atlantic ; is he going to sink the whole fleet? " I have every reason to believe this to be fact. On Wednesday this week The Times reported Pravda as quoting the Dean of Canterbury as saying: " I was ashamed of the fact that an American student was the coxwain of the Oxford crew. Oxford lost. The English people are saying, ' The presence of an American in the Oxford boat made it sink. The British Navy is now under an American, and under American command Great Britain awaits the same fate that befell the Oxford boat.' " I have no reason to believe this to be fact. If it is, Dr. Hewlett Johnson can be acquitted of everything except mental
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