Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25
Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25
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Better a dish of Croat Serbs wherelove is than a bifteck Petrograd--Never mind, go and get the thing. " When he returned with it I fell to, but my thoughts remained with thewaiter. What a man! With his dispassionate judgment, his calm sane outlookon men and affairs, shaken a little perhaps in 1914, but since thenundisturbed, was he not cut out above all others to settle the vexedfrontier lines of Europe? I wondered whether Lord ROBERT CECIL might notpossibly make use of him. I was tempted to tr...y him still further. "Have you ever heard of Mr. J. M. KEYNES?" I asked him when he brought methe Bessarabian coffee. "Mr. KEYNES I not know. He not come here, I zink. " "Or the Treaty of London?" "I vill ask ze manager. " "Or President WILSON?" A brilliant smile of illumination lit up his features. "American, is he not?" he said. "Ver reech, ze Americans. " This saddened me a little. He was not then absolutely complete. There was afaint tarnish on the lustre of his innocence. He was scarcely perhapssuited for the League of Nations after all.
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