“=Their utter contempt for the established usages of international
intercourse, and even for the ordinary decencies of life, was
displayed in their brutal treatment of the French and Russian
Ambassadors, in the stripping naked of the wives of Russian
officials, in the atrocities they have since committed in Belgium,
in their seizure of hostages, in their homicidal mine-laying in the
North Sea. In all these matters one seems to discern a sudden lapse
into primitive savagery.=”
--Dr. Dillon in the _Contemporary Review_.