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A competition for examples of compressed inaccuracy would be well

worth organising. My own entry would consist of seventeen words from Zigzag, the autobiography of W. F. R. Macartney : " Colonel Hyam, a Canadian railroad man. now head of the railway section of the League of Nations." The Colonel in question spelled his name Hiazn ; there is no railway section of the League of Nations ; there is a transit section of the League of Nations Secretariat, but Colonel Hiam was never head of it ; Colonel Hiam left the League of Nations four or five years ago and died about two