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History, we are told, has a habit of repeating itself. The conquered Prussians, by means of an apparently harmless system of military training, were able to put on the field at Waterloo a force of men that turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...
...agree with Kaiser Wilhelm who yesterday, in response to birthday congratulations from President Kaempf of the Reichstag, said: "I begin a serious and decisive year." The world did not know before that the Kaiser openly admitted the gravity of his situation. In the rest of his response, it is true, the Kaiser speaks in a different vein, but seven words of truth forced their way out among sentences of sham for public consumption. The Allies have tried to make things serious the decisive for over three years now, but Teutonic organization has made their game a slow one. This year...
...certain Boston paper reaches the height of tactlessness, to use a considerate word, in publishing large headlines to the effect that a member of the Reichstag has declared Germany cannot win against the United States. To print this so prominently amounts to saying, "Stay at home, boys; keep your money in your pockets. The Kaiser is afraid of us and wants to quit." Privileges of the press may permit this, but a reasonable sense of patriotism does not. Such a sacrifice of common sense for sensationalism, by creating an unfounded feeling of security and contempt, endangers loan campaigns, recruiting agencies...
...then there will come a revision of the electoral laws and regulations, both with regard to the Reichstag and the legislatures of the individual states...
...first got into difficulties with the German police, but the affair was later straightened out. He went to Berlin, where he saw Ambassador Girard and several of the high military officials. He obtained entrance to the Reichstag and to an exhibition of all the trophies that the Germans have captured during the present war. After his trip through Germany Mr. Hudson succeeded in rejoining his fellow pilgrims at the Hague...