From a New Book. HAND-TO-MOUTH POLITICS
English politics live from hand to mouth to a much larger extent than foreigners can credit. “The British Empire is an accident.” This epigram should provide food for thought to those who insist on seeing in every English measure a step in a plan elaborated to the last detail. The greatness of England does not depend upon her five years’ plans, but upon her five minutes’ plans: i.e., upon rignt action at the right moment coupled with a tendency to act too late rather than too soon. Such a policy is much less “interesting” than is believed by people who come to England in the expectation of sitting at the feet of Macchiavelli only to discover that they are attending a kind of board meeting.—The Press in England, by Kurt von Stutterheim, London correspondent of the '•Berliner Tageblatt.”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 13
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144From a New Book. HAND-TO-MOUTH POLITICS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 13
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