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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER IV: "My Army of Spies"
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Afterwards will follow the last stage, the closing struggle, between the continent and the over-seas." Who is meant by "overseas"?
Is there left any honest American brain so fond and so feeble as to suppose that we are not included in that highly suggestive and significant term?
I fear that some such brains are left.
Germans remain German.

I was talking with an American officer just returned from Coblenz.

He described the surprise of the Germans when they saw our troops march in to occupy that region of their country.
They said to him: "But this is extraordinary.

Where do these soldiers of yours come from?
You have only 150,000 troops in Europe.

All the other transports were sunk by our submarines." "We have two million troops in Europe," replied the officer, "and lost by explosion a very few hundred.
No transport was sunk." "But that is impossible," returned the burgher, "we know from our Government at Berlin that you have only 150,000 troops in Europe." Germans remain German.


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