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In the name of national independence and by way of a telling protest against the vassalage which binds Austria to Germany, the Entente nations spurn the notion of any common accord which requires the practice of self-surrender as a base, and are resolved under the strain of circumstance to present such a loosely-joined front to the enemy as will not involve their foregoing one iota of their freedom or one tittle of their national claims.
Why, he reasoned, might they not pole this cable beneath the rather loosely-joined ice masses until they reached the open water, then submerge the submarine and, with a capstan, drag it like a hooked trout to the channel. It was a wild scheme, but the doctor was in a mood for anything.
Here, despite the noise, the dust, the braying of an abominable band, the overwhelming smell of lamp-oil, and the clatter, not only of heavy walking-boots, but even of several pairs of sabots upon an uneven floor of loosely-joined planks ma tante, being disposed of in a safe corner, went soundly to sleep.
These things, for example, that you say about Canada and the colonies, yes, here it is, page 148, 'In the event of war the loosely-joined British Empire will break into pieces, and the colonies will consult their own interests, excellently funny, and this again, 'Canada will not permanently retain any trace of the English spirit, and this too, 'the Colonies can be completely ignored so far as the European theatre of war is concerned, and here again, 'Egypt and South Africa will at once revolt and break away from the empire, really, General, your ideas of the British Colonies are superbly funny.
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