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Show WOULD NOT TALK OF PEACE WHILE BELGIUM SUFFERS BALTIMORE, Dee. 22. The deportation deporta-tion of Belgians by Germany was strong decried at a mass meeting here tonight, called to protest against the action. Dr. John Grier Hi been, president presi-dent of Princeton university, declaring it to be "a crime against the progressive progres-sive civilization of the world, ' insisted insist-ed that there should not even be a discussion of the possibility of peace ' ' until Germany has given to Belgium and the world some definite assurance that the undeserved "wrongs of that stricken country are to be righted' Dr. Hibben said that it was the duty of a neutral nation to promote peace. ' ' But, while recognizing this obligation," obliga-tion," he continued, "I would point out a higher and more imperative duty of neutrality. It is to insist with all the spirit of an aroused national conscience that there must be a vindication, of certain cer-tain rights and reparation of 'certain wrongs that have been done with a high hand upon a stupendous scale and upon a world stage." |