Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-26
THE aMAD' FRENCH
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what the world Needs Is More Of
the Same Kind Of Madness
From New York Evening Post.o
.You are q crazy nation" ("un peu-
Iple d'enrages"1. Such was the ansIy
sxclamatioa q g German ess9g hom olG hs Was
lodging In the part of France noW
eyacuted by the triumphantly retreat
ling Hindenburg, The incident IS re-
corded by two French phystcians, VINO
went to the invaded territory as soon
as it was free, for h purpose @
bearing aid to the Victims q Ger
81 piecing together all the evidence
they could find about the state OF
mind of the invading army. They
write OF their Experiences IN the
Revue de Paris OF June 10, 2
colonel In question made his rernarK
Just after the French had rejected
the tricky peace offer OF Germany
It lis well known that the Germans
in the invaded French provinces pub
lIished three or four times a week q
newspaper, the Gazette des Ardennes.
Our French doctors were fortunate
enough to find 1t to excellent advant-N
only meal OF public information
labout what was going on open to the
French inhabitants Of the invaded
region. Everything else was cut Off
from them. And the Gazette told
them many things they wanted to
know, II printed the names Of
French soldiers who had been made
prisoners or who had been wounded.
1t published the official war bulletins,
besides giving a certain amount Of
local news. Hence the French Gag
erly< read 1t. But throughout the
German aim was to take advantage OF
thus getting a printed page into the
endeavor to create among them an
opinion about the war and its out
come.
The whole was onesInore gigantic
display of German ingenuity nlisap-
piled, To no other conquerors would
1t probably haye occurred even to att
tempt to sway the opinions Of a peo-
a constant outrage. Yet nothing Is
too hard for German efficiency. So
the Gazette des Ardennes set to work.
first Of all, to poison the minds OF the
French against the English. 1t re-
called The ancient wars between
France and England. It even wrote,
in bad French, verses celebrating
t@&4V
English out Of France. How she
must suffer, 'pauvre Jeanne" at the
thought Of the ancient enemy again
on French soil. This was stupid
enough, but worse was to fellow. The
French were to be shown the fatal
error OF their ways. They hoped to
win back Alsace and Lorraine by per
sisting in the war. The thing was
impossible, but even supposing the
lost provinces could be secured, at
what a price it would be! Much
more than they were worth. The
leaders Of the government at Paris
were 7on the wrong track. Instead
of hate between Germany and France
there Ought to be affection and CO.
OPP r alto n-even on alliance
france could be and should be the
intelligent financial partner OF a.
populous and laboring Germany. To-
gether they could make themselves
masters Of the world and put an end
Ito war" OF such was the amazing
follykof this German Gazette publish
ed ia witch the conquered French.
Our Investigating doctors were at
pains to ask right and left what had
been the effect upon French readers
of this constant patter Of German In
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