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1915 · PDF PAGE 1

The World On Fire

… only about 6 to 1 at present, and feel insecure. My own view is simpler. We have waited for a long while to smash Germany and steal her goods. We have taken a first-class opportunity, and we shall never regret it. We thank God that we are not as other men. There are no stained glass windows bright enough for us. Our haloes are top heavy. We have quite forgotten that the Belgian is the most cruel, mean, and cowardly cur in Europe, that we have demonstrated till all are blue against him as assassin, torturer, mutilator, and cannibal. We have din…

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The World On Fire

…amous 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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