Lord Robert Cecil. "I TRUST THAT AFTER ALL WE MAY SECURE AT LEAST YOUR QUALIFIED SUPPORT FOR OUR LEAGUE OF NATIONS?"
U.S.A. President-Elect: "WHY, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OURS?"
Stout Gentleman (overhearing political discussion). "Look here, my good fellow—I've been listening to your arguments; and let me tell you we're all in the same boat."
Politician. "Lumme, guv'nor, you'd better come in the middle of it then."
UNAUTHENTIC IMPRESSIONS.
I think the time has come for me to follow the example of so many other people and offer to the world a few pen pictures of prominent statesmen of the day. I shall not call them "Shaving Papers from Downing Street," nor adopt the pseudonym of "The Man with the Hot Water (or the Morning Tea)," nor shall I roundly assert that I have been the private secretary, the doctor, the dentist or the washerwoman of the great men of whom I speak. Nevertheless I have sources of information which I do not mean to disclose, except to say that heavy persons who sit down carelessly on sofas may unknowingly inflict considerable pain, through the sharp ends of broken springs, on those beneath.
I shall begin naturally with Mr. Lloyd George.