NO SENSE OF WAR'S HORROR.
Mr. Ernest P6ole, an American journalist, the author of a ra^vel, "The Harbour/ has judt returned i'Vom a two months' stay in Germany, ai,Mjl,',his impressions of the effect of the war upon the German soldier are convejwd to the Nation by a friend:-— ( "Although himself an ardent pacifist, he fails to discover any signs oft a more pacific sentiment among the German people. He believes that Ameriotins fail to appreciate .sufficiently the ethical effect of the war on the workers! from mines, factories, and workshops. The men have "no 6ense of the horror flf the war; they have, most of them, fey the first time in their life, been taken out of the humdrum life 1 and drudgery oi. the ordinary worker, and made" to feel Ihat they are making a sacrifice for an ioea. This sentiment of sacrifice permeates I'ljie whole nation ; even among the wonien there is no complaint."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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156NO SENSE OF WAR'S HORROR. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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