And that is the land from which the Allied Pharisees draw in their skirts lest their garments be defiled!' He sat down amid a good deal of applause, for his audience had not been bored, though I could see that some of them thought his praise of Germany a bit steep.

It was all right in Biggleswick to prove Britain in the wrong, but it was a slightly different thing to extol the enemy.
I was puzzled about his last point, for it was not of a piece with the rest of his discourse, and I was trying to guess at his purpose.

The chairman referred to it in his concluding remarks.

'I am in a position,' he said, 'to bear out all that the lecturer has said.

I can go further.