"One day at a luncheon in London, [Dutch journalist ] was seated next to a man prominent in British politics. "You are a Hollander, aren't you?" the distinguished knight asked him. Raemaekers replied proudly that he was. "Ah, then between us we can solve the Irish problem," the M. P. went on. "I am Irish. You are Holland. We will put all the Irish in Holland and all the Hollanders in Ireland. In one year the Hollanders will have been so industrious that they will have made Ireland a garden and the Irish will have been so lazy that they will have neglected to care for the dykes and will all have been drowned. ""