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1915 · PDF PAGE 2

The World On Fire

Anything the Belgians may have got they asked for. . . . We have received and fêted the would-be assassins of their Tsar; we have imagined Red Sunday in St. Pe- tersburg, and fulminated against pogroms, and preached against vodka and brutal Cossacks till anyone who has even been to Russia wants to go away quietly and die. England has spent about nine centuries in hating and despising France, in crying out on her for Atheism and immorality and all the rest of it; Edward VII, one night upon Mont Martre, shwears the French are jolly good shportsh,…

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1915 · PDF PAGE 7

The World On Fire

complices of the assassins. Servia replies in terms of evasion, evasion impudently cynical. Austria stirs. Rus- sia — and there is no pretense possible, the murder of the Archduke was either instigated by Panslavism or was a threat equally to the Tsar as to any other ruler — re- plies by mobilizing. Sir Edward Grey spoke for peace, spoke of neutral- ity, in the House of Commons at a moment when thou- sands of British troops were already in Belgian waters, and the fleet, concentrated and ready for action, already held the North Sea. France withd…

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