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Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3830/The Archbishop's Apologia

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December 2nd, 1914

4259663Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3830 — The Archbishop's ApologiaT. Locke O'Carroll

["I resent exceedingly the gross and vulgar way in which the German Emperor has been treated in the newspapers... I have a personal memory of the Emperor very sacred to me."—The Archbishop of York.]

His Grace of York maintains the Kaiser's
Merely the dupe of had advisers,
And, simply to avoid a fuss,
Reluctantly made war on us.

One marvels what his Grace will say
When, peradventure, some fine day,
Thanks to his German friend, he hears
York Minster crashing round his ears!