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Show I STUPIDITY OR CRIME? By way of praising tho Rumanian I Foldior Lloyd George, in a recent speech, I said. I "Tho Rumanian peasant has proved ' that he is the doughtiest fighter iu the world when he has had a chance. He never had. ' ' In reality this is a pitiful admission on the part of an entente chieftain, for it leads to the inquiry, "Why was Rumania Ru-mania induced to enter the war if she did not have a chance? ' ' If the reply should be that the allies thought Rumania had a chaii'-e and a good chance it convicts tho allies of stu pidity. If the reply be that the allies induced Rumania to enter tho war, knowing that she did not have a chance but willing to sacrifice her for tho general gen-eral cause, the reply convicts them of a crime. And what other reply, as Ho from one 1 nr (lie other of these two, can bo given; The Knglish may be glad to life the first answer, to say that tho allies believed be-lieved Rumania had a chance, And that reply probably would statu the truth, l'fr our reroliction is that, there was great, joy in J-Juglaid v.heu Iuiaania v.-ejit in and confident predictions that the war would be ".,hirlriied by :,ix moot he. ' ' J l!tt R'l-M.'f ll,'l . be",, ,'ted, II O t. of , ,;,, tv. leil ;,f ; 1,-nrll. - : and hiii -'cr i let '! 1 ' " !' "" ' I |