I was in the Foreign Office once, you know.

I take up my paper every morning, and it is one of my chief interests to see how near my own speculations come to the truth.

Just now for example, there are strange things doing on the Continent." "In America," Hamel remarked, "they affect to look upon England as a doomed Power." "Not altogether supine yet," Mr.Fentolin observed, "yet even this last generation has seen weakening.

We have lost so much self-reliance.
Perhaps it is having these grown-up children who we think can take care of us--Canada and Australia, and the others.

However, we will not talk of politics.