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We sincerely hope that the Germans will have the good

sense to sign the Treaty, though Marshal Foch is credited with the belief that they will refuse. By May 29th they will have discovered that their efforts to divide the Allies have been futile, and they will then be face to face with the question whether they will gain more by peace or by war. There can really be only one 'answer. Anything they are likely to gain by rather weak imitations of the diplomacy of the Kaiser will not bear comparison with the advantages which Germany could gain by being relieved from the blockade, getting raw materials and more food, and setting her industries to work again.

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