@Sturgis,
Mine was a good looking, feisty redheaded Irish girl who came to the US with her family in her late teens. They were northern wetbacks who entered the U.S. at night in a small boat, crossing the Detroit River from Windsor ( It was easier then to enter Canada than the U.S.). They were caught by a cop on the Belle Isle bridge and put in jail, in a case that produced some notoriety then. The explanation I recall for the arrest was that the cop was a German (somehow that explained it all). The family came from a very poor background in Ireland, but all eight children did very well for themselves here. She was very anti British all her life, and her fictitious model for a wealthy British sympathizer was a Mrs. Astorbitch.
My father, also an Irish immigrant, came from a family with middle class pretensions, however he shared her view of the British. As a then freshman Congressman, he, along with the late John Dingle's father, who held the adjacent district, both voted against Lend Lease.
