is to fight Germany without passion, with respect.”  How grimly those last two words sound now!  Through everything KEELING held with a generous obstinacy to his original prejudices.  Germany remained most tragically his second fatherland.  Somewhere he writes, “I expect I shall be a stronger Pacifist after the war than any of the people who are Pacifists now.  But I don’t feel one will have earned the right to be one unless one has gone in with the rest.”  The italics are mine.  Before a vindication so unanswerable criticism has no further word to say.

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Extract from collected works, of Viscount HALDANE OF CLOAN, O.M., K.T., Op. 3001, Minister of Reconstruction.  Report of the Machinery of Government Committee (Cd. 9230), par. 12:—­

“We have come to the conclusion, after surveying what came before us, that in the sphere of civil government the duty of investigation and thought, as preliminary to action, might with great advantage be more definitely recognised.”

“That’s the stuff to give ’em.”

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“Every boy in the street knows that all component factors in Jugo-Slav countries have proclaimed the union of Jugo-Slavia under the sceptre of the Karagorgjevic dynasty, and that the jurisdiction of the new Jugo-Slav Government extends over Belgrade and Nish, as well as over Zagreb, Sarajevo, Spljet, or Ljubljana.”—­Letter to “Manchester Guardian."

Then why all this talk about the necessity of higher education!

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[Illustration:  Cophetua’s Queen (on her first visit to a new royal residence). “OH, COPH!  AIN’T IT A DINK!”

King Cophetua.  “My DEAR CHILD, BEFORE REMARKING THAT IT IS ALL YOURS AND NOT GOOD ENOUGH, I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT YOUR LANGUAGE, THOUGH EXCUSABLE, IS NOT QUITE IN KEEPING WITH YOUR ELEVATED POSITION.”]