Divers ions

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 22

Divers ions

“ ’NUFF SAID” [“The House of Lords on a recent afternoon sat at 4.15 and rose at 4.16. In those sixty seconds the Unemployment Insurance (Agriculture) Bill passed the report stage.”—Parliamentary news item.]

The Commons in their blindness They talk for hours and hours. Which seems a great unkindness. As well as waste of powers. Why should they wish to wallow Iu words without rewards? Why can’t they learn to follow The less loquacious Lords?

Indeed, those wise old buffers A wider warning bear— The world in general suffers From far too much hot air. F.om Mussolini’s mountains To Adolf’s Nordic wood Pour forth fantastic fountains Of words that do. no good.

But here are some unsmitten By that prevailing craze; The noble lords of Britain Pursue their silent ways. Hats off (aye, let’s begin it!) To those, more wisely led, Who meet for just one minute, And whose motto is “’Nuff said”! —“Lucio.” in the “Manchester Guardian.”