GENTLEMEN, ENGLAND!
KIPLING’S TOAST. > PEOPLE. • LIKE A GUN-BARREL. . April 24. ■Mr Rudyard Kjpfing,’ who presided at the St.-George’s'Day dinner, proposed the toast of “England.'’ He likened the English to a gun-barrel, welded of. different material, but of one temper- and the highest resistance. The English, be said, after trying a sauces tdon of racial ingredients, built np a social system • with water-tight compartments, af feeding a refuge against both trade union' and profligate Chancellors of the Exch< quer. Their strength lay in the continuity of racial experience, unconsciously imposing standards not easily lowered. The English, crippled by the wastage of a • generation, perceived that the new world was merely -the old one grown harder. The whole weight of the world lies upon England and France, and the sole, force availing under Providence was not temperament and opportunism, but character ingrained and hammered by centuries of experience.
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Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 6
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146GENTLEMEN, ENGLAND! Southland Times, Issue 18816, 8 May 1920, Page 6
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