[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER IV: "My Army of Spies" 7/15
The steady stream of her propaganda all over the world proves it.
No matter how often her masquerading government changes costumes, that costume is merely her device to conceal the same cunning, treacherous wild beast that in 1914, after forty years of preparation, sprang at the throat of the world.
Of all the nations in the late war, she alone is pulling herself together.
She is hard at work.
She means to spring again just as soon as she can. Did you read the letter written in April of 1919 by her Vice-Chancellor, Mathias Erzberger, also her minister of finance? A very able, compact masterpiece of malignant voracity, good enough to do credit to Satan. Through that lucky flaw of stupidity which runs through apparently every German brain, and to which we chiefly owe our victory and temporary respite from the fangs of the wolf, Mathias Erzberger posted his letter. It went wrong in the mails.
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