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“We have passed through the greatest social convulsion in our modern history—perhaps the greatest convulsion since the civil war—and we have not heard a gun fired, nor has 'there been a life lost by deliberate violence. I do not know of any parallel to such a record, and there is nothing surprising' in the fact that it has left 'the observers of other more volcanic peoples in a sort of dazed admiration of the sweet reasonableness, with which we quarrel. A trumpery little Royalist demonstration in (Paris the other day produced more bloodshed and more deaths than the mightiest industrial civil war the world has ever witnessed, and there is never a local strike in the United States without the shooting irons doing deadly work. It has always been so. The Englishman has a congenital dislike for bloodshed. If, as the witty Frenchman said, we take our pleasures sadly, it is not less true that we take our quarrels cheerfully.” —A. G. Gardiner in the “Sunday Express.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 7
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169LIKE GENTLEMEN Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 7
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