W’en Lord Robert Cecil arsked ehew wot about Alsace-Lorraine you wos snookered

John Bull, Saturday 16 June 1917

IN THE BARBER’S CHAIR.

MR. PHILIP SNOWDEN, M.P.

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A bloke wot thinks we oughter ’and Germany’s colonies back to ’er arfter the wore, an’ let ’er give the natives ’ell’s delight again like wot she use ter, ain’t no man. ’E’s a bloomin’ mon­ strosity, an’ oughter be in spirits o’ wine. It’s orl very well fur you to git up on yore ’ind legs in the ’Ouse an’ yap about “ no annexation an’ no ihdemnities,” but w’en it comes to pertickler points wot chew carn’t arnswer, you sits an’ sneers, but are careful to* keep yore ’ead shut. W’en Lord Robert Cecil arsked ehew wot about Alsace-Lorraine you wos snookered. W’en ’e sed “Wot price Poland?” you wos stumped. W’en ’e arsked if Germany didn’t oughter be made to pay fur sinkin’ peaceful merchantmen on the ’igh seas, you wos counted out …