"There comes a time when no responsible organ of public opinion can
keep silence without sacrificing the tacit obligation under which it
lies to its readers."--_The Globe._
We are glad to note that in the same article there is a subsequent and
reassuring reference to our contemporary's "well-deserved reputation for
straightforwardness and accuracy."
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The author of _Secrets of the German War Office_ writes of the German
FOREIGN MINISTER'S "atrocious taste in waistcoats":--
"The one he had on still sticks in my memory. It was a lurid
peach-blossom creation, spotted with greed."
It is to guard against this that so many of his compatriots tuck their
napkins in at their necks.
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