Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Care and Feeding...
...only reward I may offer you (probably the only reward you would accept) is a copy of my address on the "Care and Feeding of Politicians...
...British mission left London, Old Plunk was gay. He wore in his buttonhole-"for optimism"-a red carnation and a wee sprig of heather. Less light-hearted was Lieut. Baskervyle Glegg, whose job it was to take care of such military secrets as have so far escaped espionage. Lieutenant Glegg toted his responsibility in a steel dispatch case fastened to his wrist by a three-foot chain. Lieutenant Glegg was heavy of heart because he was, handcuffed to the future of Europe...
...curious broker business. Germany needed French carbide-cyanamide for saltpeter, French bauxite for aluminum; France needed German iron and steel for emergency railroad tracks and barbed wire entanglements. Swiss dummies arranged the exchange of these commodities, with the tacit consent of the belligerents. The governments did not care whether German soldiers died on barbed wire that originated in a German factory, or whether British ships were torpedoed by German submarines made, in part, of aluminum from French bauxite, so long as the war was fought to a finish...
...African colonies are run solely for their white masters. "Are we pretending to educate these people for self-government?" he asks; answers, "They governed themselves before we went there." From the native's point of view he sums up the European achievements as roads he "does not care twopence about," schools which produce "a very disgruntled specimen," missions so frail "that, ten years after the departure of the last missionary, there would be no Christianity left," hospitals whose staffs need "all their time to counteract the tendency of the population to decrease under the white man's rule...