"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be"

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The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

— William Plomer