THE BLOCK OF GRANITE.
"Iwish our Emperor didn't talk so wildly," once sighed an annoyed German general to an Englishman who was lunching at Potsdam. " Ono never knbws' what he is going to say next. People don't believe what he says in England, do they?" he continued anxiously. This was in 1907, when his Majesty had announced that the German nation was ''' the block of granite upon which the Lord our God can build up and complete His work of civilising the world."
"No," was the answer; "we don't believe that civilisation is going to be completed with just that particular block of granite; but, in case it is, we English hope, anyway, to get a good piece of frontage on the street. Foundation stones are chiefly underground."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 4
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128THE BLOCK OF GRANITE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11215, 22 October 1914, Page 4
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