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Oldsters in Clubland. In gouty circles of extreme Tory diehardism last week elderly Britons were incautiously beginning to vow in their London clubs that "By Gad, Sir, this Rearmament will give us back Old England!" They were cocksure that the proletariat, kept increasingly busy and well paid on munitions orders, will make no trouble and that Imperial Defense will work out in such a way as to squash even those malcontents the Free State Irish by transferring to the west of the British Isles beyond the immediate reach of German air attack enormous new concentrations of Might...
Bookman--"Literary Clubland," by J. A. Macy '99. "The Descent of Man, and Some Recent Books," by F. T. Cooper...