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reasonable or effectual action more and more difficult.. The dis-

posal of the Kaiser's person ought to have been the subject of a special clause in the Peace Treaty. As for the rank-and-file of criminals, it is plain that delay has been a help to Germany and an impediment to the Allies. We might have insisiel that the German war criminals should be handed over when the Armistice was signed, or as soon afterwards as the list could be completed. As it is, the Allies are in a distinctly unpleasant position. if they allow Germany to persist in her refusal to surrender the war criminals who are within her own borders, they consent to a violation of one of the clauses of the Treaty. If this violation be accepted, it may serve as an excuse for other much less plausible violations.

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