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 France. Then when our Ambassador asked, as any gentleman would ask,
'But what about the treaty we signed?' he replied, 'What is a treaty? A
thing to be broken! A scrap of paper! Will you go to war for that?'"
"But consider what war means!" cried Bob. "Does it follow that because
the Germans are willing to plunge Europe into war, we should do
likewise? Does anything, _anything_, justify the violation of every law,
human and divine?" "Bob, do please just call to mind what that horrible
German, who had not even the first instincts of a gentleman, said, 'Have
you counted the cost, and still stand by your honour and plighted word?'
As if an English gentleman could ever count the cost when his plighted
word was given!" "Yes," said Bob, "but any statesman ought to count the
cost. Think of what it will all mean, Nancy; think of all the hatred,
the feelings of devilish revenge, the mad passions that will be roused;
think of coun