Yet tonight, when I was particularly anxious to get on with some important domestic legislation, we had to sit and listen to hours of prosy military talk, the possibilities of this and that.

They don't realise, these brain-fogged ex-military men, that we are living in days of common sense.

Before many years have passed, war will belong to the days of romance." "For a practical politician, Hebblethwaite," Norgate pronounced, "you have some of the rottenest ideas I ever knew.

You know perfectly well that if Germany attacked France, we are almost committed to chip in.

We couldn't sit still, could we, and see Calais and Boulogne, Dieppe and Ostend, fortified against us ?" "If Germany should attack France!" Hebblethwaite repeated.