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…are jolly good shportsh, bigod, and lo! the Angel of the Entente Cordiale. It is disgusting to have to foul clean paper with the name of Servia. These swineherds who murdered and mutilated their own king and queen; whose manners make their own pigs gentlefolk; these assassins who officially plot and execute the dastard murder of the Crown Prince of a nation with whom they are at peace; these ruffians so foul that even cynical England hesitates to send a minis- ter to their court of murderers these be thy gods to- day, O England! "Heroic littl…
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
…ivisions; only a part of her population is of German stock. But against Germany and this one friend are arrayed Russia, France, England, Servia, Montene- gro, and Japan; and every one of these nations is throw- ing its whole diplomatic weight into the task of getting Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and the United States of America to join in. We are 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 opport…
1915 · PDF PAGE 6
…ord perish by the sword!" And the Triple Entente gathered closer and chuck- led: Aha! he dare not fight. Let us frighten the garotte! So Servia plots and executes the crime of Sarajevo. Austria, its aged Emperor smitten yet again and most foully, demands imperatively the disclosure of the ac-
1915 · PDF PAGE 7
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…