For those who know Berlin, there's something beguilingly moving about the glimpses of the city's life – the Mickey Mouse figurines in the confiserie, the list of prices in a cafe, the faces of invalids and beggars.
Then Lloyd George went on to promote 'well thought-out schemes' to provide help 'for the sick, for the invalids, for the widowed and for orphans' and 'to deal on a comprehensive scale with the problem of unemployment'.
Most cannot afford an education: without government assistance, thus far feeble, they will remain intellectual invalids.
Officials are investigating whether the men are homeless invalids or military veterans who were forced to hand over their welfare money.
In fact they endured military discipline and served under British officers: a motley assortment of invalids and ex-China hands, some of them missionaries on the look-out for converts.The Chinese lived in camps behind the front lines, but death found them anyway.
Deprived estates have twice as many unemployed and lone parents, and 50% more invalids than the national average.But once again it seems likely that the government's rhetorical distance from its Tory predecessor will mask considerable continuities in policy.
That would allow the euro zone's invalids to regain competitiveness through wage freezes rather than outright cuts.Wages, of course, are not just important to central bankers.
In the long term an ageing population will produce more invalids and thus more business.
Just a poor farm lad from Vinnytsia in Ukraine, both parents invalids, struggling through a time of disaster and famine.
By this diagnostic measure the invalids in Europe's medical ward are making a remarkable recovery.On January 10th the interest rate on Spanish ten-year government bonds fell below 5% for the first time in almost a year.
Some sit companionably on a seat dedicated to an absent colleague, "Loved by everyone who knew him, except the fish .In early years, invalids were restored to health by being wheeled above the sea.
