[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II CHAPTER XXVI 43/65
I saw at a glance that a submarine is at work off the New Jersey coast! It's an awful thing for the innocent victims, to be drowned.
But their deaths have done us a greater service than 100 times as many lives lost in battle.
If anybody lacked earnestness about the war, I venture to guess that he doesn't lack it any longer.
If the fools would now only shell some innocent town on the coast, the journey to Berlin would be shortened. If the Germans had practised a chivalrous humanity in their war for conquest, they'd have won it.
Nothing on earth can now save them; for the world isn't big enough to hold them and civilized people. Nor is there any room for pacifists till this grim business is done. Affectionately, W.H.P. The last piece of writing from Sandwich is the following memorandum: Sandwich, Kent. June 10, 1918. The Germans continue to gain ground in France--more slowly, but still they gain.
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