They've bled your _bourgeoisie_ a bit, and serve 'em right, but with an empire to keep up you're losing all touch upon international politics.

Your ambassadors have been exchanged for trade consuls, the whole of your secret service staff has been disbanded, you place your entire faith on this sacred League of Nations.

Say, Dorminster, you're taking risks!" "You mustn't forget," Dorminster replied, "that it was your country who started the League of Nations." "President Wilson did," Chalmers grunted.

"You can't say that the country ever backed him up.

That's the worst of us on the other side--we so seldom really get a common voice." "The League of Nations was a thundering good idea," Nigel declared, "but it belongs to Utopia and not to this vulgar planet." "Just so," Chalmers rejoined, "and yet you are about the only nation who ever took it into her bosom and suckled it.