LET'S FACE IT, said the Daily Mirror; up to now
the conference has produced nothing but a dismal draining away of the Geneva Spirit. The Mail, with a different story, suggested that Mr. Molotov had drowned the Geneva Spirit in bitters. The Sunday Times, in a headline to Sir David Kelly's article, stated that the Geneva Spirit was under proof, and the Man- chester Guardian agreed that the Geneva Spirit was at any rate diluted; but the Spectator added that Geneva Spirits will almost certainly remain an essential ingredient of a Molotov cocktail. Pharos, for his part, hopes that the Geneva Spirit has gone well and truly down the drain—the phrase, not the reality, such as it is. Thanks to the efforts of busy journalists, to whom any sort of metaphor is a godsend, the Geneva Spirit nauseates me just as much as the National Cake used to.
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