expand-or-burst

Updated: May 22, 2025

when a mocking voice came floating in at the window "Are you referring to Downing Street?" It was a captured British officer, who, roaming about the village, had been attracted by our revelry. He was evidently no follower of the expand-or-burst policy of the British Cabinet. This appropriate interpellation put an end to the proceedings.

F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar - With Steyn and De Wet