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Unfortunately, there seems every indication that the statesmen who lead rival nations are only too ready to follow Germany's blind lead. In this country it is only the blessed ignorance of the people which is holding back those who are anxious to commit the folly that has put pounds, shillings, and pence into German pockets, at the cost of taking originality and character out of German heads.
The Russian army will continue its stern offensives on Germany's Eastern front, the allied armies in Italy and Africa will bring relentless pressure on Germany from the south, and now the encirclement will be complete as great American and British forces attack from other points of the compass.
These facts will soon be supplemented by a large number of documentary proofs; from this the necessity has arisen to direct Germany's advance through Belgium irrespective of neutrality considerations." Here we have the first clumsy attempts to prove that Belgian neutrality did not exist. These after-thoughts have grown during the past year into no inconsiderable literature.
Its forces are keeping the fragile peace in Balkan hot spots, like Macedonia. It will contribute to the EU's long-heralded rapid reaction force. It owns the bulk of the, frequently overdue, sovereign debts of Russia, Ukraine and other east European countries. One tenth of Germany's trade is with the candidate countries, a turnover comparable to its exchange with the United States.
A five-o'clock-in-the-morning corps The old fortress town, Verdun The effort of Colossus Germany's high water mark Thrifty fighters, the French Germany good enough to win against Rumania, but not at Verdun.
There are tree-climbing fish, and pygmy men, mountains higher and rivers greater than any yet discovered. To the north of Australia's slice of this wonderland the Kaiser was squeezing a hunk of the same island in his mailed fist. The contrast between the administration of these two portions of the same land forms the best answer to the question: "What shall be done with Germany's colonies?"
It was not the iniquitous character of the administration which surprised me, for I had seen the effects of bad colonial administration in other distant lands in Mozambique, for example, and in Germany's former African possessions but rather that such an administration should be carried on by Englishmen, by Anglo-Saxons.
In fact, the Freiberg professors seemed rather irritated by the advent of these searchers for ancient mining history, for, as the savants explained, the Freiberg methods and machines were all the most modern in the world; there were "no left-overs, no worn-out rubbish of those inefficient ages" around Germany's great school of mines.
Hugo is supposed to have said that Germany's inferiority was measured by its superiority in music. "The elder Dumas detested," Berlioz says, "even bad music." The journal of the Goncourts calmly reflects the almost universal scorn of literary men for music.
One day he was informed of Germany's abuse of neutral embassies and mail-bags; the next of the submarine bases in Mexico, prepared as a threat against American shipping; the day after that the whole infamous story of how Berlin had financed the Mexican Revolution.
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