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When William Came

CHAPTER VI: HERR VON KWARL
16/18

We backed France up the other day in her squabble with Spain over the Moroccan boundaries, and proclaimed our opinion that the Republic had as indisputable a mission on the North Africa coast as we have in the North Sea.

That is not the action or the language of aggression.

No," continued von Kwarl, after a moment's silence, "the world may fear us and dislike us, but, for the present at any rate, there will be no leagues against us.

No, there is one rock on which our attempt at assimilation will founder or find firm anchorage." "And that is-- ?" "The youth of the country, the generation that is at the threshold now.
It is them that we must capture.

We must teach them to learn, and coax them to forget.


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