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LEST WE FORGET!
Why America Is at War After
Making Every Effort to Keep
Out of Europe's Death Grip
By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Author ol "The Circular Suircue," "The Mu in Lower T«a," "K," ate.
UST why are we in this war?
For democracy? For the
sake of Belgium? For the
ancient law among nations
; that the word of a people
is its oath? Perhaps for all
of them. Perhaps, too, because we
could not keep out. We tried. What
ever uiay have been our record In the
past. It e:ui never be said of us that
we brought this war on ourselves or
that we failed to use every honorable
method to keep out of the death grip
of Europe. If we were long In coming
to our decision, it was because we re
mained incredulous. We were asked
to believe something that was hard to
believe.
So we waited and hoped and stressed
every point of International law to the
breaking point because of this thing
we would not believe. We were a
clean and humane people. We can un
derstand Individual cruelty. We have
had sad experiences of the hysteria of
crowds. But we cannot understand,
and today we hardly credit, the cruelty
of a government.
We have ourselves constructed a
government that is dignified, just, slow
to wrath, and humane.
But for three years a conviction has
been growing among us that one of the
nations in the world war is none of
these things—not dignified, not Just,
not humane. Had Germany's cruelties
ceased with Belgium, she might in time
have made her case before the world.
For three years in that wretched coun
try she has been covering her tracks.
But Germany has bungled. She has
disclaimed frlghtfulness in Belgium
only to bring It home to the world at
large. She has Introduced Into war
fare such cruelties of killing, such In
human methods, such destruction, such
contempt of the laws of war as have
set the world pale with horror. She
has added hate to the vocabulary of
war. and hatred Is a contagion.
res, persistently ana in tne nice 01
the evidence, she has disclaimed the
atrocities in Belgium. She has been
willing to shoulder the sinking of
women nnd children In unarmed ships.
She Is proud of the Invention of poison
eases and of liquid fire. She believes
that the shelling of unfortified cities
and the use of the submarine against
helpless fishing boats will, on her in
itiative, be accepted by the next Hague
convention as ethical and legal.
But she continues to disclaim the
atrocities In Belgium. Why should she
aot? The thousand* who died In pro
tecting the advance of her army, the
other thousands who were shot with
out Inquiry against the brick walls of
captured towns, those men who were
bayoneted while trying to protect their
women from the assaults of drunken
soldiers, the little children whose bod
ies lay unbtirled by the roadside—none
Of them will ever tell the story.
ATROCITIES-ON RECORD.
The atrocities In Belgium are true.
They are matters of record. German
soldiers themselves have set down the
ietalls in the diaries their government
gave them. 1 have read some of those
diaries. Not all German soldiers
turned Into beasts In Belgium. There
are some who record that the horrors
sickened them. It Is not true that the
German government ordered assaults
on women. But It did order looting
and arson and wholesale murder.
The result of that order for looting
was a mob of drunken men, whose vic
tims today fill great graves.
This Is a terrible accusation to t>rmg
against a people, let I know the
thing of which I speak. During the
first year of the war I went to that
portion of Belgium which remained un
ponquered. There I saw men, officers
high in the Belgian army, who had
themselves seen that Infamous advance
protected hy their own people—old
men, women carrying children, small
girls, sturdy boys, with death behind
and death ahead.
It was Impossible not to believe. The
accumulation of evidence was too
great. The German army had come
Into Belgium prepared for opposition.
They brought fire confetti, which they
flung into the houses while they were
occupied. More than one German
diary tells of the shooting of the in
habitants as they tried to escape.
Drunken German soldiers firing their
guns led sober ones to believe the
civil population was rising, although
it was known they had no weapons,
and f>0 or more leading citizens were
shot without a hearing. Women wer«
attacked in public places.
But even here there was a chance
for Germany. She could say—and
she has said—she did not order these
things, although she did order th#
shooting of hostages without Inquiry,
and she did order the looting which
resulted In drunkenness and Its thou
sand resulting brutal crimes.
CONVICTED ON ONE COUNT.
But on one count Germany must
face the world, must be tried and sea
fenced, with no possibility of acquit
tal. She protected her advance with
noa combatants.
I have before me on my desk the
original copy of an interview with
Albert, king of the Belgians, during
the first winter of the war. Much thM
was said during that Interview hs*
never been published and will not ba
published now. I have not the klngV
permission, although he would prob
ably give It When the Interview was
written for publlcatfon we were still
a neutral people. He respected our
neutrality, although he was hopeful
that some day he could lay the case
of Belgium before the world. It Is
enough to say that he confirmed the
atrocities out of his intimate knowl
edge, and that not the loss of a king
dom but the inhuman methods of the
invaders was the thing that had struck
to his very heart. Here Is that inter
view, brought now to the attention of
the American people, les» we forget, In
the tangle of International law and the
outcry of Germany that wa are fight
ing the allies' war, the real cause of
our entrance Into the world conflict.
To the American people today this
is a war not merely of democracy
against military autocracy, not mere
ly of the breaking of treaties, not at
all of diplomatic juggling and disputed
points of law.
It Is a war against brutality and
Inhumanity; a war against cruelty; a
war against ruthlessness and barbar
ism and incredtble savagery; a war
against the German conviction that
might Is right.
KING ALBERT'S CHARGES.
The first time King Albert of Bel
glum gave to the world at large his
statement as to the conduct of the
German army in Belgium was on that
January afternoon In 1915 when, in his
| own villa at La Panne, he gave me
the fallowing Interview. Later he re
' read It carefsllv.
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Later on, when tils equerry nronprrr
me the Interview, officially approved,
he said, "This will make history,
madame," so sure was he that the
king's statement would carry with It
not only conviction but the outraged
sympathy of the American people.
"Fearful things have been done, par
ticularly during the Invasion," the
king said, weighing his words care
fully, "although it would be unfair to
Mary Roberts Rinehart.
condemn the whole German army.
Souie regiments have been most hu
mane, but others behaved very badly.
Have you seen the government re
port?"
I s»ld I had not seen it. though I
had heard that a careful Investigation
had been made.
"The government was very cau
tious," his majesty suld. "The inves
tigation vvas.absolutelj^J'SPartlal nnd
[
ns" accurate as 'II "CotfUT De "msaa.
Doubts were cast on all statements—
even those of the most dependable wit
nesses—until they could be verified."
"They were verified?"
"Yes; again and again."
"By the victims themselves?"
"Not always. The victims of «x
treme cruelty do not live to tell of It,
but German soldiers themselves have
told the story. We have had here at
La Pnnne many thousands of Journals
taken from dead or Imprisoned Ger
mans furnishing elaborate details of
most atrocious acts. The government
Is keeping these journals. They fur
nish the most elaborate details of
testimony of what happened In Bel
glum when It was swept over by ft
brutal army. That wa9, of course,
during the Invasion; such things are
not happening now, so far as we
know."
He was trying hard to be fair. We
were stll! neutral. I was to publish
the Interview In a neutral country.
He did not wish to Involve us, to
rouse us. He had sent a delegation
to us to tell us the truth, but we had
not realized then what was happening,
and we had not heard their story.
Slowly and gravely he went on. He
sat very still, looking ahead, weighing
every word.
"Thousands of civilians have been
killed without reason. The execution
of noncombatants Is not war, and no
excuse caa be made for It 8ncl>
deeds cannot be.called war."
(Continued Tomorrow)
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