To Those in Conference
To you who hold our destiny in your hands, Experts and statesmen —that your work may speed, We, the dumb masses whom you boast to lead . . Make our petition that you take your stands No longer on our “rights” but on our need. We've tried out cleverness: at our behest, You’ve argued, wrangled, bargained, year by - , year, ' ' FoP petty triumphs which we bought too dear. \ Since tricks have failed us, wouldn’t it be best To face the.truth, and Wipe the record clear. Of your past failures? Why not, for a change, . Take even big risks for a bigger stake?. And since each State bends when its neighbours break, Admit the simple fact; nor think it strange To lay more emphasis on “give” than “take”? —MacFi-ecknoe, in The New Statesman.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 267, 6 August 1932, Page 16
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