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After I was interned in Germany as a prisoner of war in 1917-18 I edited a prison camp paper, English-American Notes, which was supported exclusively by British and American war prisoners. This newspaper, of which complete files are extant, contained no war propaganda. The only items in it that could be called propaganda, in a stretched sense of that word, were its paid advertisements of Tauchnitz books, sporting articles, wearing apparel, souvenirs and the like. Of such paid advertisements (the proceeds from which went to my publisher, a neutral Switzer) there were all too few, alas...
...refreshing. What can keep chum so long? Oh, that this cold snap hadn't snapped the neck off all my bottles of Apollinaris Water! Forensic due Wednesday, and haven't written a word yet. What a fool I am! How I wish, instead of spending the evening with that English-American Pressed-coat Poole, I had come home and ground! I wonder what this paper is on the floor. Why, it's the morning Echo! 'E??? Echo, ha! ha! joke. Give that to their item editor, poor thing! What's this editorial? 'The Greek Play.' Oh! take it away. Throw...