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Rh the return of the military Monarchies of the Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs.

What individual brave and perspicacious German Socialists and pacifists already recognized and openly proclaimed during the war (that the German people was most shamefully duped and deceived by its Government, and that only in this way could it be driven to war) should now at last be acknowledged, unreservedly, without any “if” or “but,” or palliative seeking for guilty parties abroad. This is incumbent on every honest citizen in Germany, who does not swear by the divinity of the Hohenzollerns.

This will be the best means of winning back the trust of the peoples for Germany, and thereby of repressing on the side of the victors that military policy of force, which has become the greatest menace to the peace and freedom of the world.