ENGLISH • SAGA

kingdom of Cloud Cuckoodom, The sanctity of profits and
dividends was a mere shadow. It had vanished before for the
soldiers of the Great War in the smoke and flame of Somme
and Passchendaele. As the German tanks thundered over the
same battlefields it vanished again. Men were back with their
own souls because the realities of the world of commerce and
profit-seeking had failed them. Twenty years before they had
been persuaded that their vision was an illusion. But as a tired
England girded on again the invincible armour of her tireless
valour, the vision was all that remained.