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Location
At Sea
Age
18 Years

15th April 1942

The weather has been fine all day and some very pretty scenery was in view most of this morning. We expect to arrive in Halifax tomorrow night.

As one can imagine, conversation between ourselves and the soldiers has been pretty heavy. Discussions and comparisons of our two countries being of course only natural.

I recently read and extract in the Readers Digest, from a pamphlet issued to our soldiers and airmen  going to America to receive training. In its way, it was rather amusing. It warned our men to be very careful of what they said, to try and understand the Americans point of view, and not to keep saying how much better things were done in England. It also prepared them for the generosity of American hospitality. Typical questions that they were likely to meet, were set out, and the correct answers given. Curiously enough, I have been asked practically everyone of these questions at one time or another, and I can safety say that I answered them as I should.

This question of British and American unity is a frightfully important one, and becomes more and more intriguing each day.

I never realise before that a country, speaking the same language as ourselves, could be so entirely different in its opinions and ways.

How little the Britisher knows of America and how little the American knows of Britain!

To judge America from the viewpoint of one city or even State, is impossible. The diversity of people and hence, natures and temperaments, is tremendous, but they all have one thing in common – unity. There are so many things which one sees and admires in American people which one would like to see in ones own, and so many improvements in ways of living that one would like to see in England.

The more one thinks about the whole question the more confused and involved one becomes. All I can say is, what I’ve seen of America and American people I have loved, and that should be sufficient for anyone.