thousands of victims who are fighting in France.
Time devoted to polemics is like a theft from these
unfortunates, from these prisoners and families,
whose hands seeking each other across space we are
trying to unite at Geneva.

But not content with attacking me personally,
they have attacked ideas and a cause which I be-
lieve to be that of the true France; and since my
friends expect me to defend these thoughts which
are also theirs, I profit by the hospitality which is
offered me to reply distinctly and frankly in good
French.

I have published four articles: a letter to Gerhart
Hauptmann, written the day after the devastation
of Louvain, "Above the Battle", "The Lesser of
Two Evils", and "Inter Arma Caritas". In these
four articles I have stated that of all the impe-
rialisms which are the scourge of the world, Prus-
sian Military Imperialism is the worst. I have de-
clared that it is the enemy of European liberty, the
enemy of Western civilization, the enemy of Ger-
many herself, and that it must be destroyed. On
this point I imagine we are agreed.

To what do my critics take exception? Without
entering into the discussion of certain points of de-
tail, such as the appeal made by the Allies to the

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