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Show DAZED BY HUN ATROCITIES Emotional Faculties of Afflicted Bel- gUm Probably Paralyzed by the Horrors. They Had Witnessed. Mr. Brand Whltlock, former American Ameri-can minister to Belgium, has b.ccn talking about the horror of Louvaln In tho London Dally Telegraph: "I wns struck by tho lack of pns-Blon pns-Blon dlsplnyed by nil those who hod so terribly suffered. I seldom heard any of thcra express hatred of tho Germans or any dcslro for revenge. "None ot them, ns far ns I could learn, or observe, even acted In tho tragic manner. There wero no heroics he-roics nnd no histrionics; they" did not oven demean themselves as do poo-plo poo-plo In tho cinema or tho romantic novels.' nov-els.' "In momenfs ot great danger, jpr great strain and tragedy, pooplo nro slmplo nnd nntuml; they do not aqt In tho theatrical senso of tho word." To say that n play could bo acted without gesture or other expression of what wo feel Is absurd. Nor would, I think, history support Mr. Brand Whltlock's Inference, whatovcr mny hnvo been the story of unhappy Bulttlum. "When Mme. do Barry died upon tho scafTold In Paris, her shrieks delighted de-lighted tho knitting women. . The Due do Gulso ran wildly from) Iris assassins assas-sins ta throw himself at the feet of Henry of Franco. Pitt wept 'for bis country's misfortunes tho famlly'of tho 111-fntcd Louis XVI did not ccoso their lamentations all night when they heard that be was 'to bo guillotined at dawn. Tho cholcr of Judgo Jeff roys ;found expression In tho ravings nnd rnntlngs of a mudmnn. Boabdll wept when ho was driven from Granada.' Henry VIII could swear llko a fishwife Catherine Ilownrd shrieked at Hampton court, and tho superstitious hear her shrieks to this day. In my view, tho unhappy Belgians wcro dazed by tho very horror of tho circumstance. Tho ntrocltlcs committed commit-ted by tho nun wcro too awful. Shall wo wonder If tho emotional faculties wcro paralyzed? London Dispatch. |