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for the Germans. They were usually American citizens. They never said anything that could be regarded as unpermissible for the United States, but there would be terrific denunciation, terrific explanation of how the Germans had been crushed and how they now had arisen.

I remember listening to a woman and a man making a speech on a Yorkville street corner. She said something that stuck with me. The crowd was obviously with her. She said, “Just see the difference in the looks of the German people. Look at the pictures you see in the newspapers of the German troops, the German youth, the German people in the market places and compare them with those filthy little runts of Frenchmen and Englishmen that people the world. It's good for the world that the Germans should dominate it. They are clean, honest, healthy, clear-sighted people.” That struck me, and I began to look at the newspapers with a view to estimating the relative beauty of the German and French and English troops. There was no doubt about it. So far as good looks were concerned, the Germans had it on the rest. Every now and then you'd get a handful of kind of low grade. Over-developed looking Germans, but for the most part they were quite handsome. It's true that the French and the British troops didn't look as clean, scrubbed and wide-eyed as the Germans. Of course, we've always come to





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