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GERMANY AND FRANCE
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ABSTRACT
Germany in a third-class railway carriage. The
engine was slow and in lack of oil. The carriages,
once so clean, warm and well-lighted, were unlit,
dirty and bitterly cold. There was an air of
broken nerves and misery among the passengers,
and one woman was still sobbing from some indignity
offered to her by a foreign official in the occupied
area. Presently an old gentleman, apparently a
lawyer of some eminence, broke out: “ A reckoning
must come. My little grandchildren are drinking
in revenge with their mother’s milk. In thirty
years or thereabouts we shall settle accounts with 19
France, and then we shall make ” — he swept the
air with his hand-" tabula rasa ! ”