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Excerpt from Vases Presented by the Republic of France
The Kaiser thereupon solemnly declared in Berlin, The sword has been forced into our hands, and all the echoes in Germany dutifully repeated and continue to repeat, The sword has been forced into our hands; the sword has been forced into our hands. We knew from that moment what to expect. In the dust and smoke Of the immense fight the skies are some times beclouded and we do not know the time Of day, but we feel that we are moving toward the evening of der Tag and that evening will see the doom Of those men who, even at this late hour, as unable as before to understand, still exercise their faculty Of devising, and methodically ravage, defile, and destroy the parts of France which they have to abandon, cunningly arranging bombs with time fuses that may kill people returning to their ruined homes. The hour of their doom is coming. [applause] They now pretend their eyes begin to Open and they babble Of peace, the peace of wrong, of course, the only one they can understand, not the peace of right; they still admire their Treitschke, who said' Small States have no right to exist, for they lack the essential state element - force. They have therefore no rights. The four treaties they have Signed this spring with Ukraine, Russia, Finland, and Roumania testify to this, being treaties not Of peace but of bondage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
