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NEUTRAL NATIONS AFTER THE WAR The world will fact always be at war and the day is dawning when the nations will once again settle down to peaceful intercourse and pursuits When that time comes there will be a general stock taking and casting up6f accounts both moral arid financial The spirit of brotherhood created among the nations which have fought and bled for the same ideals will make them tender and forbearing one toward the other arid the small and weak will still receive help and comfort in fullest measure from the big and strong While the utttermost farthing will be ex ¬ tracted from the nations which brought about the present conflict and have caused such vast suffering and loss there will be no haggling and huckstering spirit among the allies in the final settlement settlementIn In those days also the nations now banded against the central powers and their accomplices will take into stricter consideration than is now possible or desirable the actions of countries which have kept outside the war and have profited vastly in conse ¬ quence Against neutrality conscientiously main ¬ tained and strictly adhered to we would wish to say nothing For small and relatively weak nations easily open to attack from a big jind unprincipled IKnver there must be great sympathy especially when they show that they are endeavoring to act with strict fairness to both parties in the conflict and are innocent sufferers therefrom That sym ¬ pathy is due to Switzerland especially to Denmark and Xorway and on the whole Holland HollandHaving Having suffered ourselves from German propa ¬ ganda and plots before arid since we entered the war Spain has to some extent our sympathy in re si eet to the machinations which have been carried on in her midst for the past four years yearsIt It is Spains own business whether or not she permits her vessels to be sunk indiscriminately by German submarines If she finds it consonant with her national pride and honor to submit to such out ¬ rages It is not perhaps the concern of the allies But it is their business if she permits her ports and coast to be used for submarine bases if interned submarines are permitted to escape while others openly slip in and out of a port like Uarcelona without interference or protest Xew York Herald
