SLIPS IN ORATORY.
Even the moat facile speakers are guilty of unpardonable errors in their oratory. Mr Arthur Balfour on one occasion spoke oc "an empty theatre of unsymapthetic auditors," and Lord Curzon of Kedleston remarked that "hough we are not out of the wood, we have a good ship." Mr Asquith once stated that "redistribution is a thorny subject which requires delicate handling, or it will tread on some people's toes." Mr St. John Brodrick, when a member of the House of Commons, tolld that assembly that "among the many jarring notes heard in this House on military affairs this subject—mobilisation —at least must ne regarded as an oasis." In the debate on the London Education Bill Mr Walter Long said, "We are told that by such legislation the very heart of the country has been shaken to its very foundations." The late General Sir Redvers Buller, desiring to convey that there was little to be gained by so called Army Reform, declared that "the Army iB honey-combed with cliques and kisses go by favour in this web of axegrinders."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 596, 23 August 1913, Page 7
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181SLIPS IN ORATORY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 596, 23 August 1913, Page 7
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