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Sweden's Innocence


The German Press accuses the United States of having stolen the cipher key of the Luxburg dispatches. It is this sort of thing that is gradually convincing Germany that it is beneath her dignity to fight with a nation like America. And the growing conviction in the United States that there can

Mr. Punch's history of the Great War p201
Mr. Punch's history of the Great War p201

PERFECT INNOCENCE

Constable Woodrow Wilson: "That's a very mischievous thing to do."
Sweden: "Please, sir, I didn't know it was loaded."

be no peace with the Hohenzollerns only tends to fortify this view in Court circles. The Kaiser's protestations of his love for his people become more strident every day.

In Russia the Provisional Government has been dissolved and a Republic proclaimed. If eloquence can save the situation, Mr. Kerensky is the man to do it; but so far the men of

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