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Show TRYING TO FOOL THEM. Calling attention to militarism's lat-1 est brutality, the New York World says: If the German people are following fol-lowing the national assembly committee's com-mittee's investigation as t , re sponsibility for war nd defeat they will learn that they alone ar. to blame. There was a suspicion once that the military party brought on the confli- and that it was the army, despotically controlled con-trolled by the war lords, that had been beaten at its own game, but I1 this was an error. Germany wa" i overthrown because the neople's will to victory had been broken. The people upon whom Hinden burg and Ludendorff thus saddlo I all their failures were the most pa tient and obedient in the world. i They had been trained from their I youth to regard the stat ? as nard- ly less divinely ordained thn the kaiser. ' They had been taught that war, if carefully provided for ! and not of long duration, could be made profitable. They hd faith in their leaders and in themselves, and they did not bother about details. de-tails. Now, after years of deception, oppression and suffering, with the whole fabric of militarism in ruins all about them, a people numillat-ed numillat-ed and impoverished are calmly told by the supreme authors ot their misfortunej the blundeiers of diplomacy as well as the blunder-i blunder-i ers at arras, that their lack of co operation is solely responsible for the disaster. So long d3 it is nec essary for the apologists tor autocracy autoc-racy to maintain the fslsi hood that the war was whollv defensive on their part, other unu-uibi may be expected as a matter ot ccurse, but of the many crimes ot kaiser-ism kaiser-ism these cowardly reproaches of a devoted and deluded people are Dot the least. |