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But that is not all. In France our Armies respected

the financial sensitiveness of our Allies in a way which sounds almost incredible. We paid for the railway tickets of our soldiers as if they were tourists. We compensated the peasants for many of the trenches dug or camps made to defend them. We rented offices for our Staffs. We even paid the farmers for letting our thirsty soldiers drink from their wells ! We do not complain ; we do not want to talk about it ; but we must make the world see that we are not the sordid kinil of people they might think us to be owing to the Note.

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