JOTTINGS.
One cannot doubt that the Belgian; nation will rise again from its ruins; but even if it had perished for ever, at least it has perished nobly (says “Truth”). For nations, as for individual men, there are far worse evils than death; and that they have recognised this will be to the undying glory of the Belgians. They not only faced the worst heroically when they refused, in the first instance, the demands ol Germany. Twice since they have refused to make terms when the worst had proved more terrible than anything they could have foreseen, and when further.resistance could plainly do nothing to avert their fate. In the immortal- work of General Bernhardi there is a contemptuous reference' to .nations. Truly the Germans have done all that is humanly possible to make it pitiable. Yet who, except a devil-worshipper, would not rather be" a Belgian to-day than a German!
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 7
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151JOTTINGS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 7
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