Several readers thought that the bit of doggerel in my today piece about

“No-one could ever bribe or twist / Thank God! the British journalist…”

was Belloc. Well, I always thought so, too–it reads exactly like the old

cheese man. However, when writing the piece, I did my due diligence

(nothing unprofessional about NRO!) and googled it, that that’s what came

up. I don’t claim that’s definitive–I spent all of ninety seconds doing

the lookup–so if anyone can nail it more precisely, be glad to hear about

it.