was a business man, both crafty and incredibly cowardly. It never occurred to our worthy professorial imparters of knowledge that anything as vast as the British world Empire could never have been assembled and kept together merely by swindling and underhand methods. The few who gave warnings were either ignored or silenced. I remember distinctly the amazement on the faces of my comrades in arms when we came face to face with the Tommies in Flanders. After the very first days of fighting it dawned on the brain of each man that those Scotchmen did not exactly correspond with the people whom writers in comic papers and newspaper reports had thought fit to describe to us.
I began to reflect then on propaganda and the most useful forms of it.
This falsification certainly had its conveniences for those who propagated it ; they were able to demon¬ strate by examples, however incorrect they might be, the rightness of an economic conquest of the world. We were bound to succeed where the Englishman had succeeded ; whilst the fact that we were free from that so-called