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 and grieved at one another's behaviour, and if the mischief-makers of every land were not actively engaged in widening breaches into chasms.

It is inevitable and logical that the men who were pacifists when the word had a sinister meaning should heartily detest their countries' allies who helped them win the war. The English "Nation and Athenæum" wrote of France in 1922 as it might have written—but did not—of Germany in 1914. Poincaré it likened to Shylock, France to a butcher eager for the shambles. "French militarism at work in the Rhineland is a lash to every evil passion." "Europe is kept in social and political disorder by the sheer selfishness of France." "There was a France of the mind. Victory killed it, and a long slow renovation of the soul must precede its resurrection."

Like the ingenuous Mr. Pepys, the "Nation" does "just naturally hate