One can easily imagine what use a fiery demagogue would have made
of the secret circular sent out some months ago by the War Office,
instructing commanding officers to ascertain the attitude of their men
to the trade unions in the event of a general strike. Fortunately Mr.
ADAMSON is not that type of man, and he couched his criticisms in
a vein rather of sorrow than of anger. There was more sting in the
speech of Mr. DAVISON, and one Churchillian phrase: "They could not
maintain constitutional government on the theoretical inexactitudes of
kaleidoscopic politicians," which evidently pleased the originator.

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[Illustration: Off to raise revenue--for the National Exchequer (bien
entendu).

Mr. BOTTOMLEY.]

Mr. CHURCHILL himself was more concerned with facts than phrases. The
impugned circular, though he took no responsibility for its wording,
was essential at the time it was sent out, for the State was bound to
defend itself not against ordinary strikes, but against those which
would entail universal paralysis. Turning to Russia, he described
Bolshevism as a disease rather than a policy; it spread rapidly, but
died out quickly and left its victims--as Colonel WEDGWOOD might be
glad to know--immune for the future.

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HOW FACT PLAGIARIZES FROM FICTION.