Thicker than Bluid

At an international labor get-together in Oslo, British Guest Mark Hewitson, M.P. for Hull, recalled some of the bonds between Norway and Britain. "As Ah look around your coontry," said Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads --refugees like--came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole lot o' your bluid in ma own veins, and think there's a whole lot of it too runnin' in t' veins of a lot o' little kiddies o' the Yorkshire coon-tryside t'day."

Next day, reported Hewitson, he read in an Oslo paper: "Mr. Hewitson complained that during the late war many Norwegian refugees had left illegitimate children in northeastern England."

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