Sir: A fellow-gadder is sitting opposite me at this writing table. It
seems that some old friend of his in Texas, out of work, funds, and
food, has written him for aid, and he is replying: "Glad you're so far
away, so we sha'n't see each other starve to death."
Sim Nic.
* * *
Freedom shrieked when Venizelos fell. But Freedom has grown old and
hysterical, and shrieks on very little occasion.
* * *
The attitude of the Greeks toward "that fine democrat Venizelos" reminds
our learned contemporary the Journal of the explanation given by the
ancient Athenian who voted against Aristides: he was tired of hearing
him called "the Just." It is an entirely human sentiment, one of the few
that justify the term "human race." It swept away Woodrow the Idealist,
and all the other issues that the parties set up. If it were not for the
saturation point, the race would be in danger of becoming inhuman.
* * *
The allies quarreled among themselves during the war, and have been
quarreling ever since. A world war and a world peace are much too big
jobs for any set of human heads.
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