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...Chinese boycott of British shipping had already become surprisingly effective. The impertinence of it was not to be endured. Leaders of the pith-helmeted colony took counsel, called a proper Anglo-Saxon mass meeting, indicted resolutions after the Eton and Oxford manner, monopolized the cables...
...with its words breathing hatred of our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, and its music borrowed from a foul, English drinking song, To Anacreon in Heaven...
Never has Congress, and never will Congress, legalize Francis Scott Key's ballad, which voices "bombs bursting in air," "blood," "the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave," "foul footsteps' pollution," and refers to our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, as "the foe's haughty host...
...latter-as Author Belloc would agree if his humility matches his fervor- is the more important. Man being but an infirm creature, his convictions matter little, however brilliant and penetrating. But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service...
...amazement, was distinctly seen at Wimbledon to extract a pair of heavy tortoise-shelled spectacles from a large case and don them. With the King and Queen both converted to the use of "American glasses" they are now bound to become widely worn and provide yet another mark of Anglo-Saxon unity...