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1915 · PDF PAGE 3

The World On Fire

…rable of the mote and the beam was made for England, surely. And it is England that can produce a firm of piano manufacturers to start a boycott of German pianos their own pianos being all German but the cases! and a boycott of German music. And it is England that can show a composer who writes to the papers that he will now "try harder than he ever tried before" to beat Bach and Beethoven and Brahms and Straus and Wagner! In the meantime he will refrain from the wicked and unpa- triotic luxury of Vienna steak! And since Kant thought two an…

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1915 · PDF PAGE 2

The World On Fire

…, forges the names of famous firms, sticks at no meanness to steal trade? Who, under cover of alliance with England, fostered in China a boycott of all English goods? Only yesterday Japan was at the throat of Russia or at least trod heavily on one big toe. Today in Tokio they sing the Russian national anthem, and cheer the ambassador whenever he appears. Why not? of course. It is natural, it is human; it is all in order. But it is fickleness and treachery; it is hy-

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