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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER V: The Ancient Grudge
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And the way to insure their carrying it out is to let them split us and England and all their competitors asunder by their ceaseless and ingenious propaganda, which plays upon every international prejudice, historic, commercial, or other, which is available.

After August, 1914, England barred the Kaiser's way to New York, and in 1917, we found it useful to forget about George the Third and the Alabama.

In 1853 Prussia possessed one ship of war--her first.
In 1918 her submarines were prowling along our coast.

For the moment they are no longer there.

For a while they may not be.


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