The country was in a superb state of defence. The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid one hundred per cent and the territory of Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station. The war with Germany, incident on that country’s seizure of the Samoan Islands, had left no visible scars upon the republic, and the temporary occupation of Norfolk by the invading army had been forgotten in the joy over repeated naval victories, and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General Von Gartenlaube’s forces in the State of New Jersey. Everybody knows how the Tariff and Labour questions were settled. Toward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop’s administration. “Ne raillons pas les fous leur folie dure plus longtemps que la notre…. Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard inĬassilda’s Song in “The King in Yellow,” Act i, Scene 2. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
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