...before. This wild spreading weed was perhaps of deci- sive importance; the Germans at any rate were attempting to make it a cultivated flower. There w... ...al, sacrifice, and serenity of the home population; all were affected. The German culti- vation of opinion began long before the war; it is still the ... ... the most systematic and, because of the psychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is ce... ...hat they do not constitute a positive and de- fined propaganda such as the Germans maintain. The Ger- man propaganda is simple, because its ends are s... ...its ends are simple; as- sertions of the moral elevation and loveliness of Germany; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and C... ... aviation would destroy de- mocracy, because he said only aristocrats make aviators. (He was a man of good family.) With a duke or so in my mind I ask... ...periences of this war have seemed to carry out this hypothesis. The German aviators will not as a class stand up to those of the Allies. They are not ... ...arance of the air. Such German machines as are up are put down by fighting aviators. These last fly high; in the clear blue of the early morning they ... ...CAPE E E E E 1 1 1 1 1 I SAW RATHER MORE of the British than of the French aviators because of the vileness of the weather when I visited the latter. ...

...seum by look- ing up the caricatures of capital and labor that adorned the German and American socialistic papers of the old time. 36 In the Days of ... ...oused from my egotistical broodings to wider interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irration... ...g and pervading some new region of thought, and that was the antagonism of Germany and Great Britain. When I think of that growing proportion of reade... ...d fifty million other persons scattered about the globe, and here were the Germans over against us, fifty-six millions, in a state of confusion no whi... ...e obvious waste and evil, that would result from a war between England and Germany, whether England shattered Germany or was smashed and overwhelmed, ... ... came upon me, and when at last horse riding palled, I went and joined the aviators who practised soaring upon aeroplanes beyond Horsemarden Hill… . B...

...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...ese retired farmers who come here to spend their last days— especially the Germans. They hate to pay school-taxes. They hate to spend a cent. But the ... ...ratically chat- ting with but ruling the Ohioans and Illini and Swedes and Germans who had ventured to follow them. But Westlake was old, almost retir... ... but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators. Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly of running aw...

...ead of a frank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disas... ...he year 1898, within ten years, that is to say, of the time when the first aviators were fairly on the wing. He tells us how he sat at his desk in his... ...crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family for- 38 The World Set Free tunes, which were largely i... ... of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and us... ... to the infantry that had been determined by the experiences of the Franco-German war in 1871. There was also artillery, and for some unexplained reas... ... vitality in belligerent convulsions, and then the infection passed to the German- speaking peoples who were the heart and centre of Europe, and from ... .... ‘Signal that first,’ he said, ‘while we look.’ They were joined by their aviators for the search, and all six men began a hunt that was necessarily ... ...ow but the king and his adviser and three heavily faithful attendants; the aviators who waited now in the midday blaze with their bomb-carrying machin... ... barn with the dreadful bombs still packed upon them. A couple of score of aviators held the yard, and outside a few peasants stood in a little group ...