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As the issue is the saving of civilization, or whatever

remnants of civilization the Germans allow to survive, all civilized countries are involved. We do not, of course, mean by this that they must necessarily come into the war, or that they contemplate doing so. But the Germans have themselves removed the possibility of civilized men holding the correct balance of feeling or diplomacy between the combatants. Human compassion and the standard of decency common to all who have entered the comity of nations forbid such a thing. The mental and moral demoralization of the Germane has provoked them to blunder as well as to commit a crime. As might have been expected, horror and anger are deeper in the United States than in any other neutral country.

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