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have worked wonders to enliven the staid English ways. Soldiers, soldiers, soldiers, and all kinds of uniforms on all kinds of people must surely have wrought a terrific change in the reserve of the habitual Britisher; I infer in my own mind that the fatalistic side of the war has made the change that is indicated in the more blatant outlet of feeling among those who seek forgetfulness in the gayer pleasures.

An Englishman who lived in London, and who had spent considerable time in Times Square ^[[U.S.A.,]] told me that he had never seen London so "open". He compared the restaurant life with that of New York and in his own words, while he sipped his eternal whiskey and soda, "the war has changed all this."

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