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Show oo ARE WE NEUTRAL? (Co,llers Weekly) We shall observe President Wilsons Wil-sons neutrality order rigidly And yet suppose Germany should win.' Suppose Germany occupied France, I wiped out the British army, and swept the British navy from the sea? Suppose all this bad happened and we In the United States had a day. or two to think it over? What would I we think and what would we do'' Our own notion Is that If we were ; guided by ordinary prudence wej would Instantly recognize tOe neces-i sity of making our navy not less than! seven times as strong as it now is and I raising our standing army to a halt! million. Our German-American friends who criticize us as being prejudiced against the Fatherland! would then themselves realize the real situation. With a triumph of the mill- j tary spirit and of absolutism in Bu-rope, Bu-rope, we Americans would have to step against our wills Into the shoes that France has stood in now for forty years. |