Just so!
The Huns pay the price of lies by being constrained “to lie on still.”
But, sooner or later--sooner, perhaps, than they think--their lies
will come home to roost. The great gullible Hun public, the slaves of
an iron discipline, will learn the truth. No people in the history
of the world has been so consummately befooled, so systematically
humbugged. One wonders what the awakening will be like? The army, if we
may credit the testimony of some prisoners, is just beginning to ask
questions; the women of Hunland are on the ragged edge of revolt. The
Junkers, it is true, sit heavily upon public opinion, the safety-valve
of every nation. Meanwhile, hidden forces are accumulating strength. A
cataclysmic explosion must take place. And then the savage instincts of
the great blonde beast, instincts fostered by an intelligence perverted
to evil, will glut themselves to satiety. La Carmagnole will be danced
in Berlin.
As with individuals, so with nations--the most terrible humiliations
come from within.