had got off his chest a lot of amazing stuff.

I wasn't there, but a man who was told me that he never heard such clotted nonsense.

He said that Germany was right in wanting the freedom of the seas, and that America would back her up, and that the British Navy was a bigger menace to the peace of the world than the Kaiser's army.

He admitted that he had once thought differently, but he was an honest man and not afraid to face facts.

The oration closed suddenly, when he got a brussels-sprout in the eye, at which my friend said he swore in a very unpacifist style.
After that he wrote other letters to the Press, saying that there was no more liberty of speech in England, and a lot of scallywags backed him up.