I could read no more newspapers.

They disgusted me.

One faction seemed doggedly opposed to any proposition for the amelioration of the present disastrous state of affairs.

The salvation of wrecked political theories loomed far more important in their darkened minds than the salvation, by hook or crook, of the British Empire.

The other faction, more patriotic in theory, cried aloud stinking fish, and by scurrilous over-statement defeated their own ends.