17 JULY 1964, Page 12

, Foreigners Are Mostly Fools BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS According to

the best-known rules, Since foreigners are mostly fools, It's only common sense that, when There's so much wrong in SE10, We don't much bother what may be The sufferings of Tennessee, And conversation would be easier If no one spoke about Rhodesia. We had in happier times, it's true, The ships and men and money too.

With neither ships nor men nor money Today perhaps things aren't so funny, Yet if we haven't much to sell Oh, what the hell—oh, what the hell. Abroad's abroad. Let's keep our bubbles For blowing at domestic troubles. Who cares for these estranged faces? They're closing down the Bogside Races.