He has dropped, amid general derision, his attempt to call a thing right when even the Chancellor who did it called it wrong.

But he has an idea that if he can show that somebody from England somewhere did another wrong, the two wrongs may make a right.

Against the cry of the Roman Catholic Poles the Prussian has never done, or even pretended to do, anything but harden his heart; but he has (such are the lovable inconsistencies of human nature) a warm corner in his heart for the Roman Catholic Irish.
He has not a word to say for himself about the campaign in Belgium, but he still has many wise, reproachful words to utter about the campaign in South Africa.

I propose to take those words out of his mouth.

I will have nothing to do with the fatuous front-bench pretensions that our governors always govern well, that our statesmen are never whitewashed and never in need of whitewash.