"Fed Up with England"

President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia said recently, rebuking malcontents at Prague, "I have never met an Englishman who spoke disloyally of his country."

The President had never met Captain Otway Robinson, retired English master mariner, whose last words when he died recently at 84 were, "I'm fed up with England."

So fed up was this Englishman that his will, opened last week, bequeathes -L-10,000 ($50,000) for the relief of German soldiers disabled in the War.

"Whereas wealthy and victorious England is well able to care for her disabled soldiers," reads the will, "disabled German soldiers (the great majority of whom were conscripted under the former rigorous system of Prussian militarism) can only receive meagre pensions in their poor, defeated country."

So utterly fed up with England was Englishman Robinson that his will contains a further, ingenious clause: if any hitch prevents German veterans from accepting his money, it is to go to Dutch veterans of the Boer War against England, and the cash in this event will be handled by General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts, famed Boer-turned-Briton.

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