They order these things better abroad

■ Always ready to defend an unpopular cause. Vanity Fair now dispatches its own little torpedo into the current revival of nationalism and American patriotism. The five pairs of photographs on these pages expose the lamentable inadequacies of American life and custom in the face of their parallels on a continent which, even if it does not pay its debts, lives like a gentleman. Its moneys are safe from gangster machine-guns; its mayoral headgear is decorative where ours is. to say the least, of dubious character; its eating and dancing and loving, rather than being advertised athletics, are the pursuits of leisure. Crowns may topple from its head with regularity. hut the monocle never drops from its eye