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"God damn the blasphemers," said the old man,

dropping his Bible on the floor.

"Down with international gangsterism,"

bellowed the international banker from his desk.

"We must war to the death for peace,"

screamed the preacher from his pulpit.

"If I were only a man," sighed the old lady,

knitting a sock for an English soldier.

"Civilian bombings must be stopped,"

raged the airplane makers and shippers.

"Quarantine aggressor nations,"

shouted our exporters to Japan.

"If Hitler wins, his terms will wreck the world,"

warned the Versailles potentates.

"Besides, the Germans hate their leaders,"

quoth the billion friends of Chamberlain.

"Keep the Germans well-informed,"

demanded all our readers of newspapers.

"Let's send our men to save democracy,"

harangued the flat-foot politician.

"Be not afraid to die for great ideals,"

the undertaker whispered.

Then a young man (he was neither an old man, nor an international banker, nor a preacher, nor an old lady, nor yet an airplane manufacturer, nor an exporter to Japan, nor a Versailles potentate, nor one of Chamberlain's many friends, nor a news-paper reader, nor a flat-foot politicians, nor an undertaker) said:

"Do you mind if I talk this over with my friends, who are neither old, nor international bankers nor preachers nor airplane manufacturer nor exporters to Japan nor Versailles potentates nor Chamberlain's friends nor newspaper readers nor flat-footed politicians nor undertakers?"

It was a fairly polite question.

"Blasphemer," cried the old man.

"Gangster," droned the international banker.

"Immoral," hurled the preacher, still in his pulpit.

"Petticoat," stretched the old lady.

"Hearbless," snorted the airplane makers.

"Hypocrite," wheezed our exporters to Japan.

"Blind man," groaned the Versailles potentates.

"Spineless," quoth the friends of Chamberlain.

"Ignorant," roared the folks who read the papers.

"Slacker," sneered the flat-foot politician.

"Selfish," hissed the undertaker.

But the young man also wanted to get the opinions of the young men of 1917 and see what they thought.

" " said the young men of 1917, because they were dead.