They all adored Germany where they had never been, or which they knew only through the reels of the moving picture films.

They criticized events as though they were witnessing a bull fight.

"The Germans have the snap! You can't fool with them! They are fine brutes!" And they appeared to admire this inhumanity as the most admirable characteristic.

"Why will they not say that in their own home on the other side of the frontier ?" Chichi would protest.

"Why do they come into their neighbor's country to ridicule his troubles?
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