' It is true. What is
more, I know on whom I can depend; and I have learnt that his support
can only be secured on terms which would reduce the PREMIER to the
level of one of his minor editors."
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SHAKSPEARE WILL BE PLEASED.
"CZECHO-SLOVAK REPUBLIC.
PROBLEM OF OUTLET TO SEA.
Port at Prague or Dantzig."
--_Scottish Paper_.
"... Our ship hath touch'd upon
The deserts of Bohemia."
_The Winter's Tale, III_. 3.
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"At the Dogger Bank fight, Lion, the flagship of Sir David
Beatty, was crippled. Some people say she was torpedoed,
almost miraculously, by a Hun destroyer from five miles' range
(which version is probably tripe)."--_Scottish Paper_.
Like so many things that we read in the Press nowadays.
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_NOUVELLES DE PARIS._
(_WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE "SOCIETY" PRESS_).
_Paris, Feb., 1919._
Dearest POPPY,--_Que la vie est drole!_ Who was it said that there are
two great tragedies in life--not getting what you want, and getting
it? I never understood that saying until now. For instance, when I
left London most people I knew seemed to have a feverish desire to
get to Paris. They were ready to move heaven, earth and the Ministry
of Information to obtain the desired passport.
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