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Rh  Then war is of the devil, and the nation that cannot live without crime deserves only to be damned.  [Lifting both hands to her.] Ach, Gott! Is it your father's Fatherland you are speaking of?  [Intervening.] Leave her to me, father. I begin to understand. [ goes up; turns to ] Margaret, when you went into the Minister's house two months ago you hated him with the bitterest hatred. Has anything happened since to change your feeling towards the man?

 Yes, what has happened since is—

 What?  . . . That now I see that wars are not made by the peoples who suffer most from them, but by their ruthless masters and rulers, and that the statesman of the other nation——  [Impatiently.] Never mind the statesman. I said the man. Has anything happened since to change your feelings towards the man?

Rh