Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 30th, 1920 by Various
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and Mr. OSWALD MOSLEY, the two "babies" of the House, and the MINISTER
adopted quite a fatherly tone in recalling his own callow youth, when he too, just after the Boer War, denounced "the folly of gaudy and tinselled uniforms." _Thursday, June 24th._--On behalf of the Government Lord ONSLOW gave a rather chilly welcome to Lord BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH'S Bill for the regulation of advertisements. It is true that the noble author had explained that his object was to secure "publicity without offence," but I believe he had no desire to cramp the PRIME MINISTER'S style. Sir ERIC GEDDES belongs to that wicked species of _fauna_ that defends itself when attacked. He complained this afternoon that Mr. ASQUITH had in his recent speeches "trounced a beginner," but Sir ERIC showed, for a novice, considerable aggressive power. He claimed that the Ministry of Transport had already saved a cool million by securing the abrogation of an extravagant contract entered into by Mr. ASQUITH'S Government. The EX PREMIER, however, insisted that if a mistake had been made the Railway Department of the Board of Trade could have corrected it just as well as its grandiose successor and at an infinitely smaller cost. * * * * * [Illustration: _Naturalised Alien._ "VY DOND YOU GED OUD OF MY VAY? DOND YOU KNOW DER RULE OF DER RIVER?" _Bargeman._ "WHICH? THE RHINE?"] * * * * * |
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