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"I have a message for you, Mrs. Morrison, and for this little chap here. I'll come and see you to-morrow, if I may, when all this fuss and flag-waving is over." The woman looked blankly at him, with eyes that seemed watching for something something that never came. Billy dared not trust himself to say another word. He finally set the child down and turned away.
'The German-Americans, the Irish-Americans, the Jewish-Americans, the God-knows-who-else-Americans may be neutral, but the America of Washington and Lincoln, the America of Lee and Grant, isn't neutral. Not by a long sight. 'Doug, said Selwyn reproachfully, 'you are the last man I thought would be caught by this flag-waving, drum-beating stuff.
It also led the Lancastrian House to lean on patriotism, which was perhaps more popular; to make English the tongue of the court for the first time, and to reopen the French wars with the fine flag-waving of Agincourt. It led it again to lean on the Church, or rather, perhaps, on the higher clergy, and that in the least worthy aspect of clericalism.
Is there an instance in history where an invading army did not commit all sorts of excesses on enemy soil?" "I know," Sophie said absently. "But this woman's story she wasn't one of your glib platform spouters, flag-waving and calling the Germans names. She just talked, groping now and then for the right word. And if a tithe of what she told is true well, she made me wish I were a man."
And without the flamboyance and the flag-waving, it is doubtful whether in an exhausted country, it would be possible to get anything done at all.
There will be first of all the coming of the war, the wave of excitement, the belligerent shouting of the unemployed inefficients, the flag-waving, the secret doubts, the eagerness for hopeful news, the impatience of the warning voice.
There are some improvements so obvious, and at the same time so valuable, that it is extraordinary that they were not adopted. Signalling, for example, whether by heliograph or by flag-waving, would have made an immense difference in the Napoleonic campaigns. The principle of the semaphore was well known, and Belgium, with its numerous windmills, would seem to be furnished with natural semaphores.
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