CRIMES OF EMPERORS
put to fire and sword; men, women, children, and old men must be slaughtered, and not a tree or - house be left standing. With these methods of terrorism, which are alone capable of affecting a people as degenerate as tho French, the war will be over in two months, whereas if I admit humanitarian considerations it. will last years. In spite of my repugnance I have, therefore, been obliged to choose the former system.
The world may view with indifference the retirement to Switzerland of the short-reigned ruler of the decrepit Houso of Hapsburg. But'can it regard with equal tolerance, or with any tolerance at all, the sheltering in Holland of the author and applier of the abominable doctrine above-outlined?
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1919, Page 4
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123CRIMES OF EMPERORS Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1919, Page 4
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