1.
Graham Greene and John Sutro walk into a bar where they meet two sorority girls from Texas, you know the type: straight blonde hair, on the tall side, all around healthy-looking dames, and the plot thickens.
2.
Graham Greene and John Sutro enjoy the company of these two girls from Texas immensely, and who wouldn't? Who doesn't? I certainly do.
On the train ride home the following night Graham Greene and John Sutro refer to their chance encounter* as the birth of an Anglo-Texan Society, a phrase which amuses them intensely. They can't stop being amused by this and, being a writer, Greene writes a letter to The Times announcing the founding of a Society for the purpose of establishing ties between these two Peoples and Places. The plot gets thicker...
* An innocent one, it must be added: these were not those kind of girls, or if they were, they were at the very least the sort who do not speak of such things.
3.
Because first his letter was printed, and then steaks arrived, three whole prize winning steers-worth in fact, from the Houston Livestock Show, Texas t-bone delivered by the Air Force for the airmail express purpose of feeding the attendees of the Society's inaugural meeting, which ended up being a substantial 1500 people, after which the Society took on a life of its own, holding meetings of the educational sort, and cocktail parties, and arranging to hang plaques and engrave invitations and so on for twenty-three years longer than Graham Greene and John Sutro could have predicted.
4.
The British supported the Republic of Texas' independence to the point of guaranteeing to secure its borders if only it would stay independent, but Texas was unable to resist the Union, being—after nine independent and extremely expensive years—thoroughly broke. Still Britain hung onto the idea of Texas as long as the Texians did, and nearly longer. Now that's friendship.
5.
The building that housed the Embassy on St. James Street was once a whorehouse. The Texas Legation's final rent payments went unpaid. Long afterwards, the Embassy was memorialized by the hanging of a plaque donated by the Anglo-Texan Society to commemorate that place and, by extension, a couple of sorority girls from the heart of the once-Republic.
6.
Graham Greene and friend walk into a bar, and the rest is Texas history.
Graham Greene and John Sutro walk into a bar where they meet two sorority girls from Texas, you know the type: straight blonde hair, on the tall side, all around healthy-looking dames, and the plot thickens.
2.
Graham Greene and John Sutro enjoy the company of these two girls from Texas immensely, and who wouldn't? Who doesn't? I certainly do.
On the train ride home the following night Graham Greene and John Sutro refer to their chance encounter* as the birth of an Anglo-Texan Society, a phrase which amuses them intensely. They can't stop being amused by this and, being a writer, Greene writes a letter to The Times announcing the founding of a Society for the purpose of establishing ties between these two Peoples and Places. The plot gets thicker...
* An innocent one, it must be added: these were not those kind of girls, or if they were, they were at the very least the sort who do not speak of such things.
3.
Because first his letter was printed, and then steaks arrived, three whole prize winning steers-worth in fact, from the Houston Livestock Show, Texas t-bone delivered by the Air Force for the airmail express purpose of feeding the attendees of the Society's inaugural meeting, which ended up being a substantial 1500 people, after which the Society took on a life of its own, holding meetings of the educational sort, and cocktail parties, and arranging to hang plaques and engrave invitations and so on for twenty-three years longer than Graham Greene and John Sutro could have predicted.
4.
The British supported the Republic of Texas' independence to the point of guaranteeing to secure its borders if only it would stay independent, but Texas was unable to resist the Union, being—after nine independent and extremely expensive years—thoroughly broke. Still Britain hung onto the idea of Texas as long as the Texians did, and nearly longer. Now that's friendship.
5.
The building that housed the Embassy on St. James Street was once a whorehouse. The Texas Legation's final rent payments went unpaid. Long afterwards, the Embassy was memorialized by the hanging of a plaque donated by the Anglo-Texan Society to commemorate that place and, by extension, a couple of sorority girls from the heart of the once-Republic.
6.
Graham Greene and friend walk into a bar, and the rest is Texas history.