"we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated & attributed

[Shapiro, Fred]

Nice find, Stephen.  I had tried for years to antedate the Nov. 1942 Reader's Digest occurrence.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: "we are two peoples separated by a common language" antedated &              attributed

Confirmed on paper:
The Listener (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) 29 October 1942,  Volume 28, no. 720, p. 550, col. 1,
in a discussion, "Britain and America Today" (pp. 549-551):
Raymond Gram Swing:....When we discussed this subject in [October] 1930 we talked mostly about the need for knowledge and understanding. British knowledge of America was inadequate then and American knowledge of Britain was not so much better. And in the meantime I should say that what our two peoples actually know of each other has not grown to be anything like enough. Don't forget what Bernard Shaw said: that we are two peoples separated by a common language.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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