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1915 · PDF PAGE 4

The World On Fire

…e Bengali even. Against the Boers we Englishmen did not dare em- ploy savage troops. Europe would have risen in arms at the abomination. Today we do it, because all armed Europe is already either for us or against us. And, with all that, we use the Japanese! Can we complain if the German papers say the that Kaiser is fighting for culture, for civilization, when the flower of the allied troops are black, brown, and yellow "hea- thens," the very folks whom we have stopped from hook-swinging, suttee, child-murder, human sacrifice, and cannibal fea…

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1915 · PDF PAGE 2

The World On Fire

…red 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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1915 · PDF PAGE 5

The World On Fire

…— if any fool there were who could not see it à priori — that the greatest, widest, best, and only impregnable military base is the sea. Today we can bring Russian troops from Vladivostock or Archangel and land them at Ostend, a million at a time, and Germany must be well-served indeed by spies if she knows of the operation in time to guard against it. Is it then so treacherous and aggressive if Germany, threatened by an alliance (hypocritically described as an entente) of

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