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BRAINSTORM There is a pseudoscientific theory perhaps some ¬ thing more than a theory that people of the Teu ¬ tonic race are peculiarly subject to sudden frenzies of blind rage in which they lash out at friend and foe alike These fits of passion are known to liter ¬ ature as Berserker fury furyThere There have been evidences enough of this in the past four jears but the devastations accompanying the present Gentian retreat write the trait in italics It is conceivable that a certain amount of military destruction should take place to retard a pursuing foe but when it comes to systematic loot incen ¬ diarism and the wanton demolition of historic archi ¬ tectural monuments it is time to look for deeper reasons especially in view of Germans parlous political situation situationTo To come suing for peace with professions of democ ¬ ratization and at the same time to be devastating evacuated territory to be blaming the disastrous submarine policy on von BethmannHollweg and bewailing it and at the same time to be torpedo ¬ ing a passenger steamer and killing women and children is symptomatic of nothing short of brain ¬ storm The devastations iu France are especially sjuseless They accomplish nothing but hnte It is a balked beast knowing it is beaten which growls and rends as it goes goesCan Can it ever occur to the German rulers who issue such commands thutthey are not only making peace more difficult to obtain but are stiffening the ttuiper of the final terms against themselves Boston Globe t
