THE PEACE POINTS.

New Zealand Tablet, 22 January 1920, Page 9

THE PEACE POINTS.

J. Victor Loewi, a student of journalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee, contributed to the Wisconsin yens the following revision of the poem about the “ten little, nine little nigger boys”: Fourteen simple peace points Sent across the brine; England knocked out five, So then there were nine. Nine unbiased peace points Inscribed on Wilson’s slate; Italy resented one, So then there were eight. Eight U.S. peace points For which wo all did strive : France disliked three, So then there were five. Five impartial peace points From the land of liberty; . ; * Belgium frowned on two, ■ - - So then there were three. Three Wilsonian peace points From a man both tried and true; Japan baulked on one, So then there were two. Two surviving peace points For which the war was won; Bolshcviki had their say, Leaving only one. One solitary peace point, With fourteen we’d begun; Conference “canned” them all, So now there are none.