republican humor

Q.: Why doesn't Mark Foley use bookmarks?



A. He'd rather just bend the pages over.

Messopotamia

Mr. Churchill got to the root of the Mesopotamia issue when he said, on June 14, that our `obligation' there is not `unlimited,' that a point might be reached when no more sacrifices could be demanded from British taxpayers, and that the time might come when `the conditions of our finance or our military resources were such that we could do no more' for Mesopotamia. In our view, the point defined by Mr. Churchill was reached long ago. . . . Every child at school has heard of Babylon and its tragic fate; and the mounds of rubble which are all that now recall the vanished glories of the Babylonian empire may still serve to remind our rulers that every Power which has sought to control these dismal lands has met with ultimate disaster.
18 July 1921
Mesopotamia. (Editorial)