SAY NOT, THE HAGGLE
[By WHIM WHAM.] Mr Truman and Mr Attlee . . . have reached agreement on an American grant of 4,400,000,000 dollars in credits to Britain.—News item.
Say not, the Haggle naught availeth, The Meetings and the Talks are vain, That All is Wind the Press exhaleth, . And Gain is Loss and Loss is Gain.
If Hopes were Debts, Fears may be Dollars; That Fog of War, these verbal Vapours, Secrete a more substantial Solace Than Radio told, or daily Papers.
While the tired Scribbler, vainly guessing, Commands no Credit but his own, Great Powers, by Stages acquiescing, Bring forth the astronomic Loan.
Yet not by sighed Agreements merely, When Millions come, comes Wealth to Spare; Dollars to Us speak clear, how clearly! But the World—look, the Cupboard's bare.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24744, 8 December 1945, Page 6
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