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Excerpt from Sainte Séductre: An Inner View of the Boche at Bay
The text of this edition has been freely re vised to secure for it a ?uency, naturalness, and colloquial reality likely to commend its vital message to the closer attention of American readers.
With this same end in View the prefatory pages immediately following were included. They represent an attempt - and one of such length that some editorial explanation seems necessary - to accomplish three things: (a) To prepare a sound basis for the point of View cer tain to be acquired by the reader of this Vivid presentation of conditions within Imperial Ger many to-day; (b) to address specifically to public opinion in the United States the warning so subtly sounded by the author throughout his intensely gripping narrative; and (c) to crystal lize and amplify the most astounding and the distinctly American elements of that warning. To present an introductory digest, of course, is not the intention, the author's manner of ar raignment being infinitely more compelling than any mere prosaic recitation of alarm.
To emphasize further this cardinal appeal to America recognized in the text, there has been carefully eliminated all foreign words and ex clamatory phrases. The exception is Boche, for among our British as well as our French alliesthis nickname has distinctly arrived. Lurid sections of the Northcli?'e press have put forward the endearment of Hun to replace it; but, inter nationally speaking, a German is now and will be throughout this generation of soldiers only a Bocke. As pronounced by the western armies a more opprobrious substitute need not be sought.
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