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Show Continued revelations of von Bernstorff's activities ac-tivities show that he not only was a dilligcnt, if rather credulous, diplomatic agent along the , lines which the law of nations permits, but that he transgressed the rules of neutrality time and ; time again. It cannot be that his offenses were ' not known to the powers that bo in Washington. 1 It cannot be that the secret service and the deci-1 deci-1 pherers of foreign codes have only recently so sharpened their wits that wo are getting recently ' discovered evidence of German perfidy. Tho 'fact probably is that the startling stuff that the state department recently published has been in their possession for a long time and kept under cover for some reason which Burleson's rules regarding re-garding tho editorial conduct of newspnpers will not permit us to express an opinion nlraut. |