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 sang Captain Macheath to the fashionable world which thronged to hear the verities of "The Beggar's Opera."

Fighting and making up, alternate friends and foes, the nations of Europe have come in a thousand years to know one another fairly well. There was a short time when Napoleon's threatened invasion awakened in England's breast a hearty and healthy abhorrence of France. There was a long time when the phrase, "virgin of English," applied to a few perilously placed French seaports (Saint-Malo, for example), revealed, as only such proud and burning words can ever reveal, the national hatred of England. Over and over again history taught the same lesson; that the will of a people is stout to repel the invader, and that a foreign alliance offers no stable foundation for policy. But a great deal is learned from contact, whether it be friendly or inimical; and the close call of the Great War