To-morrow night in Chicago Kid Berg fights for the lightweight championship of the world, the “Daily Express” says in an editorial to-day. Kid Berg is a Jew, it proceeds. His coreligionists throughout Britain and beyond it are naturally in a fever of expectancy. But Kid Berg is also a British subject. In Britain we neither treat nor think of a Jew as an alieh. He is one of us, and we are proud to have so clever and resolute a boxer as Britain’s representative. His fellow-countrymen of all classes and creeds are awaiting the result of to-morrow’s fight. Their confident message to him is: “Go in and win Britain needs a world champion”
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