Every nation dreamed, and acted on its dreams—the USSR. was the result of the Russian capacity for invited them to look at the other side. Th the hands of any other nation, the Empire would have fallen by' its own weight, for the problem of hold~ ing it together would have taxed the most statesmanlike minds. But the [English mind conceived the idea of the Commonwealth, which was tually a League of Nations, with the difference that it really worked.
Or ake the coze of the English language, which to-day was the near-jest equivalent to an international Nanguage. This was achieved by the sheer stubberness of the Englishman refusing to speak anyone else's language. The English maxim was:
"When you are travelling in Rom Do exactly as you do at home.
This was the only poem he had jover composed in English. He gave Jother examples—the English church, which owed allegiance to a secular king or queen; the English constitution, a masterpiece of - patchwork; and' the English form of government. Some day, he prophesied, England would become a bolshevik state with the English King stil on his throne, and under the leadership of a most die-hard conservative cabinet.
The Englishman's Umbrella And so there went the Englishman, Junashamed of his umbrella, refusing to talk any language but his own, demanding marmalade in an African. jungle, and unable to forgive his boy" for not producing holly and a plum pudding in an African desert
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