OT: From John McCaslin's column yesterday

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Note that things haven't changed much in nearly 80 years...

 

" Given the new revelations in today's Times about recent French antics,

you might be interested in H. L. Mencken's comments, " writes Ray Stevens,

former president of the Mencken Society.

 

Our favorite of several enclosures, Mencken's editorial in the

American Mercury, April 1927: " One might plausibly argue, indeed, that the

complete disappearance of France would produce no more perturbation in the

world than the loss of an ear produces in a man. Brussels and Lucerne

would quickly put in better cooks, and Copenhagen, I venture, could take

care of the peep-show business without any need of an international loan. "