"Fog in English Channel: Continent Isolated" antedated to 1931 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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[letter to editor] _The Times of London_ 3 Nov 1939 p 9 col 5
"A little over a year ago I remember telling to an amusing little German
in Berlin the venerable chestnut about our insularity which alleges that
in the eighties of the last century there appeared the following heading
in the columns of your newspaper:  "Dense Fog in Channel:  Continent
Isolated for Three Days."
[note:  searching through the _Times_ database does not confirm this
headline]


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> YBQ has "Continent Isolated" from 1932.
> A Google Book snippet is incorrectly dated 1930, but the following is
> confirmed on paper:
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> August, 1931. Bulletin of the Taylor Society vol. 16 no. 4
> "International Planning: A Scotch Educator's View," James Alexander
Bowie,
> 150-151, here 150.
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> If we are to plan internationally the first essential is that we be
conscious
> of our problems and of the necessity for solutions.... We have not
developed
> the student mind.....I think the charge that we are insular is well
founded.
> It is said that there once appeared in an English newspaper the
headline, "Fog
> in English Channel. Continent Isolated."  This perhaps illustrates an
attitude
> of mind not entirely confined to our islands. Most of us have not
nearly
> reached this first stage of recognizing our problems and seeing their
demands
> in international action.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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